The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 76
The ‘Good Queen’ on her side watched carefully over her godson.
Who acts: Good Queen · What happens: watch · To what, where: godson
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 (Good 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 3 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | compound |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | nmod |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 watched | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 godson | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 godson | nmod:poss |
| 13 | godson | godson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the Good Queen on Queen's side | Queen's godson | carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over godson=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/76/