The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 93
The queen had already met her death from a spear carelessly thrown.
Who acts: queen · What happens: meet, throw, die · To what, where: death, spear
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), 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 | 5 met | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spear | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spear | det |
| 10 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 11 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 12 thrown | advmod |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 spear | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | the queen | queen's death | a spear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | throw | participle | a spear not said here | carelessly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | die | queen | nom death «event 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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