The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 94
This message was taken to the queen, who gave orders to bring the old woman to her.
Who acts: queen · What happens: take, give, bring · To what, where: message, queen, orders, old woman, woman
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 queen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bring | mark |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | this message | the queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to queen=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the queen | orders | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | the old woman | woman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to she=Destination |
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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