The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 2
There were once a King and a Queen, and they had a son called Sigurd, who was very strong and active, and good-looking.
Who acts: King, Sigurd · What happens: be, have, call, look · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Sigurd), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 once | vocative |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | acl |
| 16 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strong | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 strong | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 strong | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sigurd | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 active | cc |
| 23 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strong | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looking | cc |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looking | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 had | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | King | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a son not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Sigurd | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Sigurd not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | look | gerund | King not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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