The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 39
Thus a year passed away, and the Princess had a son, whom she called Benjamin.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: pass away, have, call · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 called | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 called | nsubj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 son | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | year | away, thus property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Princess | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past | Princess | a son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
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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