The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 180
Then he asked to see the Queen, but she had a headache.
Who acts: moon, Queen · What happens: ask, see, have · To what, where: Queen, headache
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 (moon, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 headache | det |
| 13 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | moon | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | moon not said here | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Queen | a headache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=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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