The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 84

They embraced and kissed each other, and the Queen went to the King, who was standing by in great astonishment, and began to speak to him, saying, ‘Dearest husband, now I can speak and tell you openly that I am innocent and have been falsely accused.’

Who acts: swans, Queen, I · What happens: embrace, kiss, go, stand, begin, speak · To what, where: each, king, you · 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 (swans, Queen, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 embraced	nsubj
2	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kissed	cc
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 embraced	conj
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 kissed	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 embraced	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 standing	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 standing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 standing	aux
18	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 astonishment	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 astonishment	case
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 astonishment	amod
22	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 embraced	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 speak	mark
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 speak	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 began	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 husband	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 husband	punct
34	Dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 husband	amod
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 speak	punct
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 speak	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 speak	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 speak	aux
40	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 saying	ccomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 tell	cc
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 speak	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 tell	iobj
44	openly	openly	ADV	_	42 tell	advmod
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 innocent	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 innocent	nsubj
47	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 innocent	cop
48	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tell	ccomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 accused	cc
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 accused	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 accused	aux:pass
52	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	53 accused	advmod
53	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 innocent	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 embraced	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	swans = swan					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	past	swans = swan not said here	each				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
3	go	past	the Queen				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
4	stand	past · progressive					by great astonishment	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by astonishment=Location
5	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			king			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	speak speech: other	can	I			now		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		you		openly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
10	is	present	I				innocent property	tree rules
11	accuse	present · perfect · passive	I not said here				falsely property	vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»

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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