The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 80
The King had an only sister who was deeply attached to him, and who was married to the sovereign of a distant country.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, attach, marry · To what, where: only sister, King
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 (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 attached | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 attached | aux:pass |
| 9 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 10 attached | advmod |
| 10 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sister | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 attached | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 married | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 married | cc |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 married | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 married | aux:pass |
| 17 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sovereign | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sovereign | det |
| 20 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 married | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 23 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sovereign | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a only sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 2 | attach | past · passive | a only sister | King | deeply property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to he=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | to the sovereign of a distant country | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to sovereign=Co-Patient |
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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