The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 5
Then there came a time when he made war on another King and went away to fight, and then the new Queen thought that she could do what she liked; so she both hungered and beat the King’s daughter and chased her about into every corner.
Who acts: King, new Queen, Queen · What happens: come, make, go away, fight, think, do · To what, where: war, daughter, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, new Queen, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 made | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thought | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 thought | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Queen | amod |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 liked | nsubj |
| 31 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 hungered | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 hungered | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hungered | nsubj |
| 35 | both | both | ADV | _ | 36 hungered | advmod |
| 36 | hungered | hunger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 beat | cc |
| 38 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hungered | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 King | det |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 King | case |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 beat | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 chased | cc |
| 44 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hungered | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 chased | obj |
| 46 | about | about | ADV | _ | 44 chased | advmod |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 corner | case |
| 48 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 corner | det |
| 49 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 chased | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | then; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | King | war | on another King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product | |||
| 3 | go away | past | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the new Queen | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | could | Queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | like | past | Queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | hunger | past | Queen | both property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | beat | past | Queen not said here | the King's daughter | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daughter=Theme | ||||
| 10 | chase | past | Queen not said here | daughter | every corner | about property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into corner=Trajectory |
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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