The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 72
The Flower Queen’s daughter was delighted to see him safe and sound, and when they were dancing together she whispered in his ear: ‘If you succeed again to-morrow, wait for me with the foal in the meadow.
Who acts: daughter, Foxes, you · What happens: be, see, dance, whisper, succeed, wait · To what, where: King, ear, meadow
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 (daughter, Foxes, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | compound |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sound | cc |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 safe | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whispered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 whispered | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 dancing | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dancing | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dancing | aux |
| 19 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 whispered | advcl |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 dancing | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 whispered | nsubj |
| 22 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ear | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ear | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whispered | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 wait | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 wait | punct |
| 28 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 succeed | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 succeed | nsubj |
| 30 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wait | advcl |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 succeed | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 succeed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 succeed | punct |
| 36 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 whispered | parataxis |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 wait | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 foal | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 foal | det |
| 41 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wait | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 meadow | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 meadow | det |
| 44 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wait | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Flower Queen's daughter | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Flower Queen's daughter not said here | King | safe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dance | past · progressive | Foxes = fox | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | past | daughter | King's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 5 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | you | again | to morrow | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | wait | infinitive | the meadow | for me; with the foal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=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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