The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 12
Then they went away, leaving the Queen very sad, so sad that the King noticed it, and asked her what was the matter.
Who acts: brothers, King · What happens: go away, leave, notice, ask, be · To what, where: Queen, book, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 sad | advmod |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leaving | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sad | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sad | advmod |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 noticed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sad | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 noticed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | iobj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 matter | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 matter | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 matter | det |
| 26 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | brothers = brother | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | the Queen | sad property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | |||
| 3 | notice | past | the King | book | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | brothers = brother not said here | Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | 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 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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