The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 12
The queen and the princes were there, but she was poorly clad and so sorrowful that the king did not recognise her, neither did he think for a moment that the two children, who were dressed only in rough skins, were his own sons.
Who acts: queen, king, two children · What happens: be, clad, not recognise, think, dress · To what, where: retainer, two children, rough skins, own sons
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, king, two children), 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 | 7 there | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princes | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 queen | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clad | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 clad | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 clad | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 clad | aux:pass |
| 12 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 13 clad | advmod |
| 13 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 there | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sorrowful | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sorrowful | advmod |
| 16 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clad | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 recognise | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recognise | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 recognise | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 recognise | advmod |
| 22 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sorrowful | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 recognise | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 25 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 think | cc:preconj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | aux |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 there | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 moment | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 moment | det |
| 31 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 think | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 sons | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 children | det |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 children | nummod |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 sons | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dressed | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 dressed | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 dressed | aux:pass |
| 39 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 children | acl |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 skins | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 skins | case |
| 42 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 skins | amod |
| 43 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 dressed | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 skins | punct |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 sons | cop |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 sons | nmod:poss |
| 47 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 sons | amod |
| 48 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 moment | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen and the princes | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clad | past · passive | retainer | poorly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not recognise | past · do-support | the king | retainer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · do-support | king | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | dress | past · passive | the two children | rough skins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the two children | king's own sons | tree rules |
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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