The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 35
And these were the last words the poor Queen spoke.
Who acts: these, poor Queen · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: last words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, poor 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 words | cc |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Queen | amod |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | these | the last words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the poor Queen | the last words not said here | tree rules |
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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