The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 23
The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at all, and she got up before it was light to give the necessary orders and to choose the jewels that the Princess was to wear.
Who acts: Queen, it, Princess · What happens: overjoy, be, sleep, get up, give, choose · To what, where: Queen, all, necessary orders, jewels
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, it, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 overjoyed | advmod |
| 5 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 overjoyed | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sleep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overjoyed | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 light | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 light | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 light | cop |
| 24 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 got | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 light | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 orders | det |
| 28 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 orders | amod |
| 29 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 choose | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 choose | mark |
| 32 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 jewels | det |
| 34 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 choose | obj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 wear | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Princess | det |
| 37 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 wear | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 wear | cop |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 wear | mark |
| 40 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Queen | able, hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | all | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | it | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | the necessary orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 7 | choose | to-infinitive | the jewels | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the Princess | the jewels not said here | wear property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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