The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 105
His Queen, Balanice, was also charming; indeed it is rare to find a husband and wife so perfectly of one mind about everything.
Who acts: Queen, it · What happens: be, find · To what, where: charming, husband
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, it), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 charming | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Balanice | punct |
| 4 | Balanice | Balanice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 charming | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 charming | advmod |
| 8 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rare | punct |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 rare | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rare | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rare | cop |
| 13 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charming | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rare | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 husband | det |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wife | cc |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 husband | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 perfectly | advmod |
| 21 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 24 mind | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 mind | nummod |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 everything | case |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 mind | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | model's Queen and Balanice | charming | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | indeed, rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a husband and wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent husband=Theme mind=Attribute |
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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