The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 64
There were once a king and a queen who lived in a beautiful castle, and had a large, and fair, and rich, and happy land to rule over.
Who acts: king, queen · What happens: be, live, have, rule over · To what, where: beautiful castle, large
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 large | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fair | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fair | cc |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 large | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rich | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rich | cc |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 large | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 land | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 land | cc |
| 28 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 land | amod |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 rule | mark |
| 31 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 land | acl |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 rule | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king and a queen | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a queen | a beautiful castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a king and a queen not said here | a large | happy land obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent large=Patient | |||
| 4 | rule over | to-infinitive | a king and a queen not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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