The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 60
First she stole my King away, Then my children did she slay.
Who acts: witch, children · What happens: steal away, slay · To what, where: King
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 (witch, children), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 stole | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 King | nmod:poss |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 stole | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slay | punct |
| 8 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 slay | advmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slay | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slay | aux |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slay | nsubj |
| 13 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stole | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | past | witch | my King | away, first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | |||
| 2 | slay | past · do-support | my children | then | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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