The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 74
After the king had set out on his journey, the queen went about in her loneliness, and sorrowed and vexed herself more than ever.
Who acts: queen, child · What happens: set out, go about, sorrow, vex, journey · To what, where: journey, loneliness, queen
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 (queen, child), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 king | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 loneliness | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 loneliness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sorrowed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sorrowed | cc |
| 20 | sorrowed | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vexed | cc |
| 22 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sorrowed | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 vexed | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 vexed | obj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 more | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past · perfect | child's journey | after the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go about | past | the queen | queen's loneliness | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sorrow | past | the queen not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | vex | past | the queen not said here | queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer more=Result | ||||
| 5 | journey | child | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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