The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 96
So the King went away and never knew that it was a false Queen who lay in the bed.
Who acts: King, eye, false Queen · What happens: go away, not know, be, lay · To what, where: false Queen, bed
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 (King, eye, false 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 knew | advmod |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Queen | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Queen | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bed | det |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the King | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | eye | a false Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | a false Queen | the bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination |
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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