The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 7
And the old emperor had no son; only three daughters.
Who acts: old emperor · What happens: have · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old emperor), 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 | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | amod |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughters | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughters | nummod |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old emperor | no son | three daughters obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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