The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 112
The Queen was inconsolable, and so, indeed, was the King, only being a man he did not say quite so much about his feelings.
Who acts: Queen, king · What happens: be, not say · To what, where: King, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, king), 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 | 4 inconsolable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inconsolable | cop |
| 4 | inconsolable | inconsolable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 so | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 inconsolable | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 indeed | punct |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 so | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 King | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 so | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 man | advmod |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 man | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 King | appos |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 say | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 say | advmod |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 say | advmod |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 say | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 feelings | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 28 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 much | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inconsolable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | inconsolable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | king | a man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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