English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 9
One of the king's knights who had escorted the new queen, cried out in admiration: “Surely this northern Princess is the loveliest of her kind.”
Who acts: knights, One · What happens: escort, cry out, be · To what, where: new queen, admiration · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knights, One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 loveliest | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knights | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knights | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 escorted | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 escorted | aux |
| 9 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knights | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 queen | amod |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 queen | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 admiration | case |
| 17 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 loveliest | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 loveliest | punct |
| 20 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 23 Princess | advmod |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 Princess | det |
| 22 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Princess | amod |
| 23 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loveliest | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 loveliest | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 loveliest | det |
| 26 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kind | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loveliest | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 loveliest | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 loveliest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | past · perfect | the king's knights | the new queen | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | participle | the new queen not said here | admiration | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in admiration=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | One of the king's knights | of queen's kind; lovely 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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