The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 27
They opened boxes and chests of which the keys had been lost for a hundred years, and found numbers of curious things, but not the dagger, and the King tore his beard, and the Queen tore her hair, for the handkerchief and the dagger were the most valuable things in the kingdom.
Who acts: dagger, King, Queen, handkerchief · What happens: open, lose, find, tore, be · To what, where: boxes, keys, numbers, beard, hair, valuable things
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dagger, King, Queen, handkerchief), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chests | cc |
| 5 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boxes | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lost | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 keys | det |
| 9 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lost | aux:pass |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chests | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lost | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 20 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 22 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 numbers | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dagger | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 dagger | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 dagger | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dagger | det |
| 28 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tore | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tore | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 tore | nsubj |
| 33 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 beard | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tore | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tore | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 tore | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Queen | det |
| 39 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 tore | nsubj |
| 40 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hair | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tore | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 handkerchief | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 handkerchief | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 handkerchief | det |
| 46 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 things | nsubj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 dagger | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 dagger | det |
| 49 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 handkerchief | conj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 things | cop |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 things | det |
| 52 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 53 valuable | advmod |
| 53 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 things | amod |
| 54 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 tore | parataxis |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 kingdom | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 kingdom | det |
| 57 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 things | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | dagger | boxes and chests | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the keys | year | of chests | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme of which=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | dagger not said here | numbers of curious things | the dagger obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | |||
| 4 | tore | past | the King | King's beard | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tore | past | the Queen | Queen's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the handkerchief and the dagger | the valuable things | the kingdom | 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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