The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 53
The King saw at once that it was his own Queen, and immediately hewed asunder the iron chain that was fastened to the belt.
Who acts: King, chain, hewed asunder · What happens: see, be, hew, chain, fasten · To what, where: own Queen, iron chain
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, chain, hewed asunder), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 saw | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Queen | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Queen | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Queen | amod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 chain | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chain | cc |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 hewed | advmod |
| 15 | hewed | hew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 asunder | amod |
| 16 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chain | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chain | det |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chain | compound |
| 19 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fastened | aux:pass |
| 22 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chain | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 belt | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 belt | det |
| 25 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fastened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | chain | thing's own Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hew | participle | immediately property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | chain | hewed asunder | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fasten | past · passive | the iron chain | to the belt | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to belt=Co-Patient |
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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