The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 86
In winter, when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow, she must come and live with me in my palace underground.’
Who acts: everything, Queen · What happens: be, cover, come, live · To what, where: ground, palace
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 (everything, Queen), 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 | _ | 2 winter | case |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 winter | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dead | advmod |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dead | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dead | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 live | cc |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 live | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obl |
| 25 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 24 palace | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everything | winter | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cover | participle · passive | the ground | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | must | Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | infinitive | Queen not said here | my palace | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=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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