The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 66
The nurse was married to a nobleman, and the King and Queen gave her splendid presents.
Who acts: King · What happens: marry, give · To what, where: nurse, splendid presents
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), 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 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 nobleman | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nobleman | det |
| 7 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Queen | cc |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | conj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 presents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 presents | amod |
| 17 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the nurse | to a nobleman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to nobleman=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the King and Queen | Queen's splendid presents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
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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