The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 85
When the Flower Queen heard that her daughter wanted to marry the Prince, she said to him: ‘I will give my consent to your marriage gladly, but my daughter can only stay with you in summer.
Who acts: Flower Queen, daughter, Queen, I, my, your · What happens: hear, want, marry, say, give, stay · To what, where: Prince, consent, marriage · 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 (Flower Queen, daughter, Queen, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | compound |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 marry | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 consent | nmod:poss |
| 25 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obl |
| 29 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 23 give | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stay | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 stay | cc |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stay | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 stay | aux |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 stay | advmod |
| 36 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 give | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 stay | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 summer | case |
| 40 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stay | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Flower Queen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | want | past | Queen's daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Queen's daughter not said here | the Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | Prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give | future | I | my consent | your marriage | gladly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | ||
| 6 | stay | can | my daughter | summer | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | |||
| 7 | consent | my | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | marry | your | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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