The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 4
And the Queen promised faithfully to obey her royal lord and master in these four matters.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: promise, obey · To what, where: royal lord, four matters
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 (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 | _ | 4 promised | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 obey | mark |
| 7 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lord | nmod:poss |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lord | amod |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obey | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 master | cc |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lord | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 matters | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 matters | det |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 matters | nummod |
| 16 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 obey | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Queen | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Queen's royal lord and master | this four matters | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
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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