The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 97
The queen had only one nut left now, but even that she was ready to give up in order to deliver the man.
Who acts: queen · What happens: have, leave, be, give up, deliver · To what, where: one nut, man
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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nut | nummod |
| 6 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nut | acl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 left | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 ready | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 ready | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 give | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 deliver | mark |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 in | fixed |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 deliver | mark |
| 22 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deliver | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the queen | one nut | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | one nut not said here | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | deliver | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the man | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
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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