The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 62
The faithful servant, however, told the queen that it was the king’s command that during the years he was absent in the war she should keep herself concealed in the castle, so that no one but himself should see her and the little princes.
Who acts: faithful servant, fire, that, queen, one · What happens: tell, be, keep, conceal, see · To what, where: queen, command, war, castle · 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 (faithful servant, fire, that, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 servant | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 told | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 command | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 command | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 command | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 command | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 king | case |
| 16 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 absent | nsubj |
| 18 | during | during | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 years | det |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 absent | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 absent | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 absent | cop |
| 23 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 command | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 war | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 war | det |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 keep | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 keep | aux |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 absent | parataxis |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 keep | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 castle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 castle | det |
| 34 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 concealed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 see | punct |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 43 see | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 so | fixed |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 one | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | nsubj |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 himself | cc |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 one | conj |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 keep | conj |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 princes | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 princes | det |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 princes | amod |
| 48 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 her | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the faithful servant | the queen | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | fire | the king's command | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | year | absent property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep | should | queen | queen | the war | tree rules | |||
| 5 | conceal | participle | queen not said here | the castle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | should | no one | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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