The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 55

Then she took the seal ring off her neck, and exchanged the letter for another, in which she had written that the queen had given birth to two whelps.

Who acts: queen · What happens: take, exchange, write, give · To what, where: seal ring, neck, letter, queen

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	compound
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exchanged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 exchanged	cc
12	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 letter	det
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exchanged	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 another	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 letter	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 written	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 written	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 written	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 written	aux
22	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 exchanged	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 given	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 queen	det
25	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 written	advcl
28	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 whelps	case
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 whelps	nummod
31	whelps	whelp	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 given	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	queen	the seal ring	queen's neck	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off neck=Initial_Location
2	exchange	past	queen not said here	the letter			for another	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent letter=Theme for another=Co-Theme
3	write	past · perfect	queen					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the queen			to two whelps	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient birth=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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