The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 62
The King now understood how the Queen he had had for some time past had been so ill-tempered.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: understand, have, temper · To what, where: time past · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 understood | advmod |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 had | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 understood | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 tempered | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 past | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 past | compound |
| 14 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tempered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tempered | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 tempered | aux:pass |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 tempered | advmod |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tempered | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ill | punct |
| 20 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 had | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the King | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | the Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | temper | past · perfect · passive | some time past | tree rules |
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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