The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 3
The queen had had two beautiful princes; but the king had sent orders that all these were to be burned.
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: have, send, burn · To what, where: two beautiful princes, orders, these
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:3315): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princes | nummod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princes | amod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | aux |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 burned | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 these | det |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 burned | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 burned | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 burned | aux:pass |
| 21 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 orders | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the queen | two beautiful princes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | the king | orders | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | the king not said here | these | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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