The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 93
The Queen, whose ambition was boundless, was delighted to see the crown on her son’s head and to have the power in her own hands.
Who acts: ambition, Queen · What happens: be, see, have · To what, where: crown, head, power, own hands
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 (ambition, 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 | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boundless | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 ambition | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boundless | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 boundless | cop |
| 7 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Queen | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | cop |
| 10 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 delighted | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crown | det |
| 14 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 son | case |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 power | det |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hands | amod |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ambition | boundless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Queen | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | the crown | Queen's son's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | the power | Queen's own hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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