The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 37

The king and queen marvelled greatly what this could mean; but just then the old woman who was spoken of in the beginning of the story was again brought in to the queen.

Who acts: king, this · What happens: marvell, mean, speak, bring in, begin · To what, where: old woman, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, this), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marvelled	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 queen	cc
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	conj
5	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	7 what	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 marvelled	obj
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 mean	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mean	aux
10	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 what	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 woman	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 woman	advmod
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 woman	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	nsubj:pass
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 spoken	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spoken	aux:pass
20	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 woman	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 beginning	case
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 beginning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beginning	det
24	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoken	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 story	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beginning	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux:pass
29	again	again	ADV	_	30 brought	advmod
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 marvelled	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	30 brought	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 queen	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 queen	det
34	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 marvelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marvell	past	the king and queen				tree rules
2	mean	could	this				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past · passive		the old woman	of the beginning of the story		tree rules
4	bring in	past · passive		the old woman	again	to the queen	vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	begin			the story			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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