The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 134
The King and Queen were sitting on a magnificent throne opposite the judges and the whole council.
Who acts: King · What happens: sit · To what, where: magnificent throne
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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3369): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 6 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sitting | aux |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 throne | det |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 throne | amod |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 13 judges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 judges | det |
| 13 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sitting | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 council | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 council | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 council | amod |
| 17 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 judges | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the King and Queen | a magnificent throne | opposite the judges and the whole council | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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