The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 27
The King mourned, but he did not think that the Queen had done the wicked deed, and as he was afraid the maiden would also be taken from him, he wanted to take her with him.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: mourn, not think, do, be, take, want · To what, where: wicked deed, maiden, queen · 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 (King, 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mourned | nsubj |
| 3 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 think | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 think | advmod |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mourned | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 wanted | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deed | det |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deed | amod |
| 17 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 afraid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 afraid | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 afraid | cop |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 done | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 taken | aux |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 taken | advmod |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | aux:pass |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 afraid | ccomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 taken | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wanted | nsubj |
| 34 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 take | mark |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wanted | xcomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the King | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the Queen | the wicked deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | would · passive | the maiden | from king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | want | past | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | queen | with king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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