The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 9
The King had a daughter who was very beautiful, but she was also very capricious.
Who acts: King, daughter, leader · What happens: have, be · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, daughter, leader), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 beautiful | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 capricious | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 capricious | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 capricious | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 capricious | cop |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 capricious | advmod |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 capricious | advmod |
| 16 | capricious | capricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | leader | capricious property | tree rules |
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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