The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 84
He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened, and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen’s palace; but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling, through which no one could force a way.
Who acts: Prince, Queen, one · What happens: fly, hear, happen, lay, cause, grow up · To what, where: terrible rage, siege, forest, way · 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 (Prince, Queen, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rage | det |
| 5 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rage | amod |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 determined | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 determined | cc |
| 15 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heard | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 determined | xcomp |
| 18 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 21 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Queen | compound |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Queen | case |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 caused | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 caused | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Queen | det |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 caused | nsubj |
| 29 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 caused | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 flowers | case |
| 33 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 forest | nmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 high | advmod |
| 35 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 flowers | amod |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 sky | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sky | det |
| 38 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 high | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 grow | mark |
| 40 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 high | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 grow | compound:prt |
| 42 | round | round | ADP | _ | 44 dwelling | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 44 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 grow | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 force | punct |
| 46 | through | through | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 force | obl |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 force | nsubj |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 force | aux |
| 51 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 caused | conj |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 way | det |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 force | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Prince | into a terrible rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lay | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | siege | to the Flower Queen's palace | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result | |||
| 5 | cause | past | the Queen | a forest of flowers | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition forest=Patient | ||||
| 6 | grow up | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | round Queen's dwelling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | force | could | no one | a way | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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