The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 19
The queen gave orders that everything should be done as she desired; and then the maiden dressed herself in seven clean snow-white shirts, and held her wedding with the lindorm.
Who acts: queen, maiden · What happens: give, do, desire, dress, hold, wed · To what, where: orders, everything, queen, seven clean white shirts, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 done | obj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 done | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 orders | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 desired | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | nsubj |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dressed | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 dressed | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dressed | nsubj |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 dressed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 shirts | case |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 shirts | nummod |
| 22 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shirts | amod |
| 23 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 white | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 snow | punct |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shirts | amod |
| 26 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dressed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 held | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 held | cc |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dressed | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 lindorm | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lindorm | det |
| 34 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wedding | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the queen | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | should · passive | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | desire | past | queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | dress | past | the maiden | queen | seven clean white shirts | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||
| 5 | hold | past | the maiden not said here | queen's wedding | with the lindorm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | |||
| 6 | wed | queen | with the lindorm | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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