The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 40
The king and queen now sent for their eldest son and his young bride.
What happens: send · To what, where: king
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: 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 | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sent | advmod |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bride | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bride | amod |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle · passive | the king and queen | now | for women's eldest son and king's young bride | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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