The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 87
There once lived a king and a queen who ruled over a very great kingdom.
Who acts: queen · What happens: live, rule · To what, where: king, great kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ruled | nsubj |
| 10 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kingdom | amod |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ruled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king and a queen | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | rule | past | a queen | a great kingdom | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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