The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 184
And after the king’s death Elsa became queen, and when she was old she told this story.
Who acts: death, Elsa, king · What happens: become, be, tell, die · To what, where: queen, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, Elsa, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 became | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 7 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 death | appos |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 old | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 old | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 old | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | acl:relcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the king's death | queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Elsa | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Elsa | this story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | die | the king | 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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