The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 12
The King of this island had a daughter named Rosalie, who was more lovely than any girl in the whole world.
Who acts: King, Rosalie · What happens: have, name, be · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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, Rosalie), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 daughter | acl |
| 10 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lovely | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lovely | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lovely | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 lovely | advmod |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Rosalie | appos |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 girl | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lovely | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 world | amod |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King of this island | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a daughter not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Rosalie | than any girl in the whole world; lovely property | tree rules |
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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