The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 53
The queen took a short way home, got there before the king and changed her dress.
Who acts: queen · What happens: take, get, change · To what, where: short way, dress
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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 got | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 changed | cc |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the queen | a short way | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | there | before the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | change | past | queen's dress | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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