The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 27

He eagerly inquired whose it was, and the Queen, with many tears, told him it was all that was left her of her beloved daughter, who had suddenly been carried off, she knew neither where nor how.

Who acts: King, apartments, Queen · What happens: inquire, be, tell, leave, carry off, know · To what, where: King, apartments, beloved daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, apartments, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 inquired	nsubj
2	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	3 inquired	advmod
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 was	nmod:poss
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tears	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 tears	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tears	amod
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Queen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Queen	punct
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux:pass
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 left	det:predet
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 left	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux:pass
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 daughter	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
27	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 daughter	amod
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 carried	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 carried	aux
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	34 carried	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 carried	aux:pass
34	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 daughter	acl:relcl
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 carried	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knew	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knew	nsubj
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
39	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 where	cc:preconj
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 knew	advmod
41	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	42 how	cc
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 where	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	King			eagerly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	apartments				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen and many tears		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	leave	past · passive		apartments		of Queen's beloved daughter	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
5	carry off	past · perfect · passive		Queen's beloved daughter		suddenly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	know	past	Queen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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