The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 75
After a year the Queen gave birth to a little son.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: give · To what, where: birth, little son
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Queen | birth | a little son | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient |
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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