The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 52
The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey.
Who acts: Queen, weeping, horse · What happens: hang, set, journey · To what, where: little cross, Prince bade, journey
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, weeping, horse), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cross | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cross | amod |
| 6 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weeping | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weeping | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 weeping | case |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weeping | amod |
| 14 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lamentation | cc |
| 16 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 weeping | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bade | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bade | compound |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 weeping | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 farewell | advmod |
| 22 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bade | acl:relcl |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 journey | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 journey | nmod:poss |
| 28 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the Queen | a little cross | after much weeping and lamentation and the Prince bade | round horse's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | weeping | the Prince bade not said here | horse's journey | farewell, forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme on journey=Destination | ||
| 3 | journey | horse | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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