The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 10
The Queen-dowager was wise and good, and tried her best to make her people happy.
Who acts: Queen dowager · What happens: be, try, make · To what, where: best, people, wife
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen dowager), 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 | 4 dowager | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dowager | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 4 | dowager | dowager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wise | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wise | cop |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 good | cc |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wise | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tried | cc |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wise | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 best | nmod:poss |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 tried | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen dowager | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Queen dowager not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | try | past | the Queen dowager not said here | wife's best | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen dowager not said here | people | wife | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary people=Product |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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