The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 6

The Queen, his mother, called him Curlicue, because it was a name she rather liked, and it seemed to suit him.

Who acts: soul, Queen, it · What happens: call, be, like, seem, suit · To what, where: mother, Grumpy, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (soul, Queen, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	acl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obj
9	Curlicue	Curlicue	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 name	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 name	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 name	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 name	det
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	conj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	nsubj
17	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 liked	advmod
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 name	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seemed	nsubj
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 suit	mark
24	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 suit	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	participle		Grumpy's mother and a name not said here	Grumpy	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	soul	a name		tree rules
3	like	past	Queen	a name not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
4	seem	past	it	Grumpy's mother and a name not said here		tree rules
5	suit	to-infinitive		Grumpy		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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