English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 75
The king and the queen heard this, and came to the bonny young lady, and she said:
Who acts: king, lady · What happens: hear, come, say · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, lady), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 queen | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lady | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 13 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lady | compound |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lady | amod |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king and the queen | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the king and the queen not said here | to the bonny young lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lady=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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