The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 16

So the old woman continued, ‘The most beautiful woman in the whole world is the daughter of the Queen of the Flowers, who has been captured by a dragon.

Who acts: old woman, beautiful woman, dragon · What happens: continue, be, capture · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, beautiful woman, dragon), 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 continued	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	nsubj
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woman	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 daughter	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Queen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Queen	det
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Flowers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Flowers	det
24	Flowers	Flower	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 Queen	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 captured	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 captured	nsubj:pass
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 captured	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 captured	aux:pass
29	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 daughter	parataxis
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 dragon	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dragon	det
32	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 captured	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the old woman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the beautiful woman in the whole world	the daughter	of the Queen of the Flowers	tree rules
3	capture	present · perfect · passive	a dragon	the daughter		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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