The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 69
After a year, when the Queen had her first child, the old mother took it away from her.
Who acts: Queen, old mother · What happens: have, take away · To what, where: first child, tree
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, old mother), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 had | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Queen | queen's first child | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | take away | past | the old mother | tree | from queen; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme from she=Initial_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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