The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 53
Some days after came the ninety-year-old sister to the palace and asked for the queen.
Who acts: days · What happens: come, ask
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 6 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 year | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ninety | punct |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 old | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 year | punct |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 queen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some days | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | some days not said here | for the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
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