The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 66
She took her lute, and slipping into the court in front of the palace she sang, clear and sweet:
Who acts: queen · What happens: take, slip, sing · To what, where: lute, court, palace
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lute | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slipping | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slipping | cc |
| 7 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | parataxis |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slipping | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slipping | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sang | nsubj |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 palace | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clear | punct |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slipping | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sweet | cc |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clear | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | queen | queen's lute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lute=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slip | gerund | the court | in front of the palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in front=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | queen | the palace not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
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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