The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 130
She had a crown of gold upon her head, and the King and Queen sat by her side.
Who acts: Ludovine, King · What happens: have, sit, crown · To what, where: crown, gold
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludovine, King), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crown | nmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Queen | cc |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | conj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ludovine | a crown of gold | upon Ludovine's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the King and Queen | by Ludovine's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 3 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication 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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