The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 22
The Queen went home quite satisfied, and thought she had got rid of her step-children; but the girl had not run to meet her with her brothers, and she knew nothing of her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: go, think, get, not run, meet, know · To what, where: girl, queen, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 16 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 children | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 step | punct |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rid | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 run | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 run | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 run | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 run | advmod |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 meet | mark |
| 27 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 run | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 meet | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 brothers | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 meet | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knew | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 knew | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 knew | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 nothing | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Queen | home, satisfied property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Queen not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | queen | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not run | past · perfect · passive | the girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | queen | with queen's brothers | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme with brother=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | know | past | queen | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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