The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 42
In the twelfth room they found the Mother Dragon seated on a diamond throne.
Who acts: speech, Mother Dragon · What happens: find, seat · To what, where: twelfth room, diamond throne · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (speech, Mother 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dragon | det |
| 8 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dragon | compound |
| 9 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | nsubj |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 throne | det |
| 13 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throne | compound |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | speech | the twelfth room | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seat | past | the Mother Dragon | a diamond throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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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