The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 83

When they had lived a few years happily together, the King’s mother, who was a wicked old woman, began to slander the young Queen, and said to the King:

Who acts: pomp, mother, wicked old woman · What happens: live, be, begin, slander, say · To what, where: mother, wicked old woman, young Queen, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pomp, mother, wicked old woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	aux
4	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 years	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl:unmarked
8	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
9	together	together	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mother	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 woman	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 woman	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
19	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mother	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 woman	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 slander	mark
25	slander	slander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Queen	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Queen	amod
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 slander	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 began	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 King	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 King	det
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	pomp	the King's mother		year	happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the King's mother	a wicked old woman				tree rules
3	begin	past	a wicked old woman not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	slander	to-infinitive	a wicked old woman not said here	the young Queen				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	a wicked old woman not said here		the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=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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