The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 61
Just about this time the queen died, and soon after the king thought he should like to marry again.
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: die, think, like, marry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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.
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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 thought | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | advcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 marry | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the queen | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the king | soon property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | like | should | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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