The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 54
The next day the Queen sent King Charming splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs, and among other things an ornament made expressly in honour of the approaching wedding.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: send, make, approach, honour · To what, where: splendid presents, Charming, ornament, honour, approaching wedding
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 (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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 presents | amod |
| 10 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 jewels | case |
| 12 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 presents | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stuffs | cc |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stuffs | amod |
| 15 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 jewels | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 things | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 things | cc |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ornament | det |
| 22 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 things | appos |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ornament | acl |
| 24 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 23 made | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 honour | case |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wedding | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wedding | det |
| 29 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 wedding | amod |
| 30 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 honour | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Queen | splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs | Charming King | day | among other things | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent charming=Destination present=Theme | |
| 2 | make | participle | a ornament not said here | honour of the approaching wedding | expressly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | honour | the approaching wedding | nom honour «state transitive»: of=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 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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