The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 77
The queen saw that she was beaten, and called down a curse on her daughter that the prince should forget all about her.
Who acts: queen, prince · What happens: see, beat, call down, forget · To what, where: queen, curse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, prince), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 beaten | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beaten | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beaten | aux:pass |
| 7 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 curse | det |
| 13 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 forget | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forget | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 forget | aux |
| 21 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 her | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 forget | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | beat | past · passive | queen | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call down speech: assert | participle | the queen not said here | a curse | on queen's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | forget | should | the prince | about queen | tree rules |
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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