The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 35
Their room was next the Queen’s, and often during the day they heard the Queen talking.
Who acts: room, fellows, Queen · What happens: be, hear, talk · To what, where: Queen
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 (room, fellows, Queen), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 room | nmod:poss |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Queen | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Queen | cop |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 Queen | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Queen | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 heard | advmod |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 18 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 heard | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fellows's room | 's the Queen; next property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | fellows = fellow | the Queen | day | often property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | talk | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP 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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