The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 1
Once upon a time a great and powerful King married a lovely Princess.
Who acts: great King · What happens: marry · To what, where: lovely Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 married | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 powerful | cc |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 great | conj |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | a great King | a lovely Princess | time | once property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/1/