The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 11
Now the King had one daughter, who was just fifteen years old.
Who acts: King, one daughter · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one daughter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one daughter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughter | nummod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 old | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 11 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 old | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | one daughter | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | one daughter | year | old property | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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