The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 151
The talk even reached the Court, and the Queen, who was very curious, had a great desire to see the wonderful Prince.
Who acts: talk, Queen · What happens: reach, be, have, see · To what, where: Court, great desire, wonderful Prince
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 (talk, 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 | 2 talk | det |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Court | det |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 curious | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 curious | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 curious | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 curious | advmod |
| 15 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Queen | punct |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 desire | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 desire | amod |
| 20 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Prince | amod |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the talk | the Court | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Queen | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Queen | a great desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | the wonderful Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
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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