The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 99
In one of these barges sat the Queen of that country with her only daughter, a maiden more beautiful than the Day Star, and attended by the ladies of the Court.
Who acts: barges · What happens: sit, attend · To what, where: Queen
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 (barges), 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 | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sat | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 barges | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 barges | det |
| 5 | barges | barge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Queen | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | obl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 daughter | advmod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 more | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 Star | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Star | det |
| 23 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Star | compound |
| 24 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 beautiful | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 attended | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 attended | cc |
| 27 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sat | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 ladies | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ladies | det |
| 30 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 attended | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Court | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Court | det |
| 33 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ladies | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | this barges | the Queen of that country | in one; with Queen; daughter obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in one=Location | |||
| 2 | attend | participle | this barges not said here | by the ladies of the Court | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by lady=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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