The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 105
After a time the Queen had a little boy, and the mare also had a male foal.
Who acts: Queen, mare · What happens: have · To what, where: little boy, male foal
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, mare), 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 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mare | det |
| 13 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 foal | det |
| 17 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 foal | amod |
| 18 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Queen | a little boy | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | the mare | a male foal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=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 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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