The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 52
Soon after this the queen had two children, the prettiest boys that anyone could see.
Who acts: queen, anyone · What happens: have, see · To what, where: two children, prettiest boys
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, anyone), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 children | nummod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 children | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 boys | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the queen | two children the prettiest boys | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | could | anyone | the prettiest boys not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
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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