The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 47
The King, the Queen, and the Princess were speechless with surprise.
Who acts: King · What happens: be
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 (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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 speechless | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Queen | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speechless | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speechless | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 speechless | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speechless | cop |
| 11 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 surprise | case |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speechless | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 speechless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King and the Queen | with surprise; speechless 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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