The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 103
After some little time had elapsed the Queen spoke one night, and said:
Who acts: Queen · What happens: elapse, speak, say · To what, where: little time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 elapsed | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elapsed | aux |
| 6 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spoke | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 night | nummod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | some little time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the Queen | night | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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