The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 12
The King had already been married once, and had by his first wife seven children, six boys and one girl, whom he loved more than anything in the world.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, marry, love · To what, where: first wife
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 married | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 children | nummod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boys | punct |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 boys | nummod |
| 19 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 girl | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 girl | nummod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 loved | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 loved | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wife | conj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 29 anything | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 more | fixed |
| 29 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 loved | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 anything | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | marry | participle · passive | the King not said here | once property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the King not said here | by king's first wife and seven children and six boys and one girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | love | past | king | king's first wife and seven children and six boys and one girl | tree rules |
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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