The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 114
And off she flew, and Kay sat alone in the great hall trying to do his puzzle.
Who acts: queen, Kay · What happens: fly, sit, try, do, puzzle · To what, where: great hall, puzzle
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, Kay), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hall | amod |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 14 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sat | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 trying | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 puzzle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | queen | off property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Kay | the great hall | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | Kay not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kay not said here | Kay's puzzle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | puzzle | Kay | nom puzzle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/114/