The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 67

But the King had a wicked mother who was displeased with the marriage, and said wicked things of the young Queen.

Who acts: King · What happens: have, displease, say · To what, where: wicked mother, wicked things · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mother	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 displeased	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 displeased	aux:pass
10	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mother	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 marriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marriage	det
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 displeased	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Queen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Queen	amod
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 things	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King	a wicked mother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
2	displease	past · passive		a wicked mother	with the marriage	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the King not said here	wicked things of the young Queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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