The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 107
In course of time the King died, and so did the Queen, and their son, who was now nineteen years old, was left alone.
Who acts: King, son · What happens: die, do, be, leave · To what, where: Queen, son
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 (King, son), 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 | In | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 time | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 In | fixed |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 left | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 old | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 old | cop |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 old | advmod |
| 22 | nineteen | nineteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 old | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 died | conj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 left | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the King | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the King not said here | the Queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | brothers's son | now; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | brothers's son | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «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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