The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 21
Now the emperor had a stepmother, and she had a daughter by her first husband, who lived with her in the palace.
Who acts: emperor, stepmother, first husband · What happens: have, live · To what, where: stepmother, daughter, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, stepmother, first husband), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stepmother | det |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 husband | amod |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 husband | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the emperor | a stepmother | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmother=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | stepmother | a daughter | by stepmother's first husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 3 | live | past | stepmother's first husband | the palace | with stepmother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=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 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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