The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 38
They accepted the challenge, and the eldest son and she played the first game, which she won; then the second son played, and she won that game likewise; the third son and she then played the last game, and he won it, which sorely grieved her that she had not him in her power as well as the rest, being by far the handsomest and most beloved of the three.
Who acts: cards, Queen, first game, second son, assembly · What happens: accept, play, win, grieve, have, be · To what, where: challenge, first game, game, last game, Queen, assembly
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cards, Queen, first game, second son), 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 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 challenge | det |
| 4 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accepted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accepted | vocative |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 played | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 played | nsubj |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 game | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 game | amod |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 played | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 won | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 won | nsubj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 won | nsubj |
| 19 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 game | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 played | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 played | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 played | nsubj |
| 25 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 won | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 won | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 won | nsubj |
| 29 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 played | conj |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 game | det |
| 31 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 won | obj |
| 32 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 29 won | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 son | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 son | det |
| 35 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 son | amod |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accepted | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 played | cc |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 played | nsubj |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 played | advmod |
| 40 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 game | det |
| 42 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 game | amod |
| 43 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 played | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 won | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 won | cc |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 won | nsubj |
| 47 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | parataxis |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 won | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 grieved | punct |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 grieved | nsubj |
| 51 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 52 grieved | advmod |
| 52 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 won | conj |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 grieved | obj |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 had | mark |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 had | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 grieved | advcl |
| 57 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 58 him | advmod |
| 58 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 had | obl |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 power | case |
| 60 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 power | nmod:poss |
| 61 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 had | obl |
| 62 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 66 rest | cc |
| 63 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 62 as | fixed |
| 64 | as | as | ADP | _ | 62 as | fixed |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 rest | det |
| 66 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 had | conj |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 handsomest | punct |
| 68 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 72 handsomest | cop |
| 69 | by | by | ADP | _ | 72 handsomest | case |
| 70 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 72 handsomest | advmod |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 handsomest | det |
| 72 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 52 grieved | parataxis |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 beloved | cc |
| 74 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 75 beloved | advmod |
| 75 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 72 handsomest | conj |
| 76 | of | of | ADP | _ | 78 three | case |
| 77 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 78 three | det |
| 78 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 75 beloved | obl |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | cards = card | the challenge | the eldest son vocative | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | past | Queen | the first game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | win | past | the first game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | past | the second son | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | win | past | Queen | that game | likewise property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | play | past | Queen | the last game | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 7 | win | past | assembly | game | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | grieve | past | Queen | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | have | past | Queen | assembly | Queen's power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 10 | is | gerund | far, handsome property | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | belov | participle | of the three | 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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