The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 88
As soon as the Queen thought him strong enough for a journey she set out with him secretly to visit her Fairy godmother.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: think, set out, visit · To what, where: son, journey, Fairy godmother
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | xcomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 strong | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strong | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 journey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obl |
| 18 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 20 visit | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 visit | mark |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 godmother | amod |
| 23 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visit | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Queen | son | soon, strong property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out | past | Queen | a journey not said here | with son | tree rules | |||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen's Fairy godmother | secretly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godmother=Co-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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