The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 33
So he took the youngest for his Queen, and lived with her very happily for a long time.
Who acts: flask · What happens: take, live · To what, where: youngest
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flask), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youngest | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | obl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 happily | advmod |
| 15 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | flask | the youngest | for flask's Queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent young=Theme for queen=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | live | past | flask not said here | time | with Queen; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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