The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 5
So when the King set out on his expedition she shut herself up with her ladies in her own apartments, and spent her time in spinning and weaving, and in thinking of her royal husband.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: set out, shut up, spend, spin, weave, think · To what, where: thinking, Queen, expedition, royal husband
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 (King, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 expedition | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 9 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shut | nsubj |
| 11 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 shut | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ladies | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shut | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 apartments | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apartments | amod |
| 20 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ladies | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spent | cc |
| 23 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spent | obj |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 spinning | mark |
| 27 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 spent | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 weaving | cc |
| 29 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 spinning | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thinking | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thinking | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 thinking | case |
| 33 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 husband | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 husband | nmod:poss |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 husband | amod |
| 37 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 thinking | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | the King | thinking of Queen's royal husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut up | past | Queen | Queen | King's expedition | with Queen's ladies in Queen's own apartments | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with lady=Instrument | ||
| 3 | spend | past | the King not said here | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | the King not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weave | gerund | the King not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think | Queen's royal husband | nom thinking «cognition transitive»: of=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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