The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 65
Whilst the king was sitting with his council, the queen found time to disguise herself.
Who acts: king, queen · What happens: sit, find, disguise · To what, where: queen
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 (king, 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 found | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 council | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 council | nmod:poss |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 disguise | mark |
| 15 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 disguise | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the king | with sire's council | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the queen | time | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disguise | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Destination |
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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