The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 61
As soon as the ambassador arrived at the palace, the Queen started to fetch her daughter.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: arrive, start, fetch · To what, where: palace, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 ambassador | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ambassador | det |
| 5 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fetch | mark |
| 15 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | xcomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the palace | as the ambassador; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the Queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Queen's daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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