The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 92
The queen then took one of her nuts and cracked it, and turned her horse about.
Who acts: queen · What happens: take, crack, turn · To what, where: one, uproar, horse
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nuts | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nuts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cracked | cc |
| 10 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cracked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the queen | one of queen's nuts | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | crack | past | the queen not said here | uproar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the queen not said here | queen's horse | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result |
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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