The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 95

One day the Queen was sitting at the window weeping bitterly because she was childless, and knew that the crown would therefore pass to strangers after the King’s death.

Who acts: Queen, crown, King · What happens: sit, weep, be, know, pass, die · To what, where: window, strangers · Speech: someone speaks here

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, crown, King), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sitting	conj
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	10 weeping	advmod
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 childless	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 childless	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 childless	cop
15	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weeping	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 pass	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 crown	det
21	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pass	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pass	aux
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	24 pass	advmod
24	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knew	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 strangers	case
26	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pass	obl
27	after	after	ADP	_	31 death	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 death	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 King	case
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pass	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the Queen	the window	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
2	weep	gerund	the Queen not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Queen			childless property	tree rules
4	know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	pass	would	the crown	strangers	after the King's death	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial_Location
6	die		the King				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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