The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 9

As she was an only child, of course this little girl was the heiress of the kingdom, but, being still only a baby, her mother, the widow of Diamantino, was proclaimed regent.

Who acts: wife · What happens: be, proclaim · To what, where: only child, heiress, baby

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 (wife), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 child	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heiress	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 girl	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 girl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heiress	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heiress	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heiress	det
15	heiress	heiress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kingdom	det
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heiress	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 proclaimed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 proclaimed	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 baby	punct
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 baby	cop
23	still	still	ADV	_	26 baby	advmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	26 baby	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 baby	det
26	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 proclaimed	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 baby	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 widow	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 widow	det
32	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 baby	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Diamantino	case
34	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 widow	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 baby	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 proclaimed	aux:pass
37	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 heiress	parataxis
38	regent	regent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 proclaimed	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 heiress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	wife	a only child			tree rules
2	is a	past		the heiress		of this little girl; of the kingdom	tree rules
3	is a	gerund		a baby and wife's mother and the widow of Diamantino	still		tree rules
4	proclaim	past · passive		a baby and wife's mother and the widow of Diamantino		regent property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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