The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 68
When the time for the young Prince’s christening came the King chose as godmother a neighbouring Princess, so celebrated for her wisdom and goodness that she was commonly called ‘the Good Queen.’
Who acts: time, King, young Prince · What happens: come, choose, neighbour, celebrate, call, christen · To what, where: neighbouring Princess, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (time, King, young Prince), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 christening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 christening | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 9 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chose | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chose | nsubj |
| 13 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 godmother | case |
| 15 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chose | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 17 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Princess | amod |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chose | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 celebrated | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 celebrated | advmod |
| 21 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chose | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 wisdom | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 celebrated | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 goodness | cc |
| 26 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wisdom | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 called | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 called | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 called | aux:pass |
| 30 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 31 called | advmod |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 celebrated | advcl |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 Queen | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Queen | det |
| 34 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Queen | amod |
| 35 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 called | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chose | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time for the young Prince's christening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | past | the King | a neighbouring Princess | as godmother | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | celebrate | participle | the King not said here | for Princess's wisdom and goodness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for wisdom=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | Princess | commonly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | christen | the young Prince | nom christening «act transitive»: poss=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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