The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 116
But the Queen was an extremely clever woman, who could do a great deal more than just drive in a coach.
Who acts: Queen, clever woman · What happens: be, do, drive · To what, where: clever woman, more, coach
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, clever woman), 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 | _ | 8 woman | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 woman | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 do | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 drive | mark |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 drive | advmod |
| 19 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 more | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 coach | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coach | det |
| 22 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drive | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Queen | a clever woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | could | a clever woman | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | drive | infinitive | a clever woman not said here | a coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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