The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 94

Now the King of this unhappy country was growing old, and so was the Queen, and they had no children.

Who acts: King, country · What happens: grow, be, have · To what, where: Queen, children

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, country), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 growing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 growing	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 country	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 country	det
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 growing	aux
9	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 growing	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Queen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Queen	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 Queen	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Queen	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 growing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Queen	acl:relcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	the King of this unhappy country		now	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the Queen			tree rules
3	have	past	country	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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