The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 2
His Queen had left one daughter behind her, and she was so wise and so pretty that it was impossible for any one to be wiser or prettier.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: one daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughter | nummod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wise | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wise | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wise | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wise | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 wise | advmod |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 impossible | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pretty | advmod |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 21 impossible | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 impossible | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 impossible | expl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 impossible | cop |
| 21 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wise | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 impossible | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wiser | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wiser | cop |
| 27 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 one | amod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 prettier | cc |
| 29 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 wiser | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | widower's Queen | one daughter | behind her = she | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme behind she=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Queen not said here | for any one; impossible, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | 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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