English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 7
Soon the procession drew near, and the new queen came towards Princess Margaret who bowed low and handed her the keys of the castle.
Who acts: procession, new queen, Princess Margaret · What happens: draw, come, bow, hand · To what, where: Princess Margaret, keys, Margaret
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, new queen, Princess Margaret), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 procession | det |
| 3 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 queen | amod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 Margaret | case |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Margaret | compound |
| 14 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bowed | nsubj |
| 16 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Margaret | acl:relcl |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bowed | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handed | cc |
| 19 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 handed | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 keys | det |
| 22 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 handed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 castle | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keys | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the procession | near, soon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the new queen | Princess Margaret | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards margaret=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | Princess Margaret | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hand | past | the new queen not said here | the keys of the castle | Margaret | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination key=Theme |
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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