The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 33
This was more than the Queen could bear.
Who acts: This, Queen · What happens: be, bear
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | aux |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 more | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | could | the Queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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