The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 44
The queen walked about amongst the prisoners, and at length she picked out her husband and took him with her on her journey.
Who acts: queen · What happens: walk, pick out, take, journey · To what, where: prisoners, husband, length, journey
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. 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 | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 7 prisoners | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prisoners | det |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 picked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 picked | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 picked | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 picked | nsubj |
| 13 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 picked | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 picked | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 journey | nmod:poss |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the queen | the prisoners | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst prisoner=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pick out | past | queen | queen's husband | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent husband=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 3 | take | past | queen not said here | husband | queen's journey | with queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on journey=Destination | ||
| 4 | journey | queen | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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