The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 53
The queen knew she was dying, and sent for Dotterine and her nurse, who had now become her lady-in-waiting.
Who acts: queen, Dotterine · What happens: know, die, send, become, wait · To what, where: waiting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, Dotterine), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dying | aux |
| 6 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Dotterine | case |
| 11 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nurse | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dotterine | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 become | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 become | advmod |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Dotterine | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 waiting | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waiting | nsubj |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 waiting | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 in | punct |
| 25 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | past · progressive | queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | send | participle | the queen not said here | for Dotterine and queen's nurse | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | Dotterine and queen's nurse | queen's waiting | now | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | wait | queen | nom waiting «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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