The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 36
But if you wish to see the Flower Queen’s daughter go up the second mountain: the Dragon’s old mother lives there, and she has a ball every night, to which the Flower Queen’s daughter goes regularly.’
Who acts: you, old mother, mother, daughter · What happens: wish, see, go up, live, have, go · To what, where: daughter, second mountain, ball
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 (you, old mother, mother, daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 8 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Queen | compound |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 go | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 mountain | amod |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dragon | det |
| 19 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Dragon | case |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mother | amod |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | parataxis |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lives | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 has | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lives | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ball | det |
| 30 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 goes | punct |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 goes | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Queen | det |
| 37 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Queen | compound |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Queen | case |
| 40 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 goes | nsubj |
| 41 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lives | conj |
| 42 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 41 goes | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Flower Queen's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go up | imperative | you not said here | the second mountain | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent | ||||
| 4 | live | present | the Dragon's old mother | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | mother | a ball | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | |||
| 6 | go | present | the Flower Queen's daughter | regularly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location |
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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