The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 5
As time went on the Queen fell sick, and suspecting that it was her last illness, sent for the King to come to her.
Who acts: Queen, troth · What happens: go, fall, suspect, be, send, come · To what, where: last illness, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, troth), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 fell | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspecting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suspecting | cc |
| 11 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 illness | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 illness | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 illness | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 illness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 illness | amod |
| 17 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suspecting | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 illness | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | the Queen | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suspect | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | troth | Queen's last illness | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | participle | Queen's last illness not said here | for the King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | come | to-infinitive | Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location |
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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