English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 2
They were long married and had no children; but at last a baby-boy came to the queen when the king was away in the far countries.
Who acts: last, king · What happens: marry, have, come, be · To what, where: king, children, far countries
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 married | advmod |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 baby | punct |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 queen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 queen | det |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 countries | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 countries | det |
| 28 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 countries | amod |
| 29 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 away | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | king | long property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past | last | to the queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the king | the far countries | away 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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