The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 61
The Queen hastened to inform the King her husband, and the wedding took place on the spot.
Who acts: Queen, wedding · What happens: hasten, inform, take · To what, where: King, place, spot
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 (Queen, wedding), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 inform | mark |
| 5 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inform | obj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inform | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wedding | det |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | parataxis |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the wedding | place | the spot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on spot=Destination |
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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