The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 26
One day when the Prince was visiting the Queen in her own apartments he was much struck by a most beautiful portrait.
Who acts: Prince, beautiful portrait · What happens: visit, strike · To what, where: Queen, own apartments, King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, beautiful portrait), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 visiting | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 visiting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 visiting | aux |
| 7 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 visiting | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 apartments | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apartments | amod |
| 13 | apartments | apartments | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visiting | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 struck | aux:pass |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 struck | advmod |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 apartments | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 portrait | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 portrait | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 portrait | amod |
| 22 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past · progressive | the Prince | the Queen | Queen's own apartments | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | a beautiful portrait | King | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
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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