The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 102
Here the Snow-queen used to sit when she was at home.
Who acts: queen · What happens: use, sit, be · To what, where: Snow queen, home
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 3 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Snow | punct |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 queen | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 home | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 home | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the Snow queen not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | home | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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