English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 2
The king had a daughter, Anne, and the queen had one named Kate, but Anne was far bonnier than the queen's daughter, though they loved one another like real sisters.
Who acts: king, queen, Anne · What happens: have, name, be, love · To what, where: daughter, one
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, Anne), 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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Anne | punct |
| 7 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 one | acl |
| 15 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 named | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bonnier | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 bonnier | cc |
| 18 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bonnier | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bonnier | cop |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 bonnier | advmod |
| 21 | bonnier | bonnie | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 had | conj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 daughter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 queen | case |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bonnier | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 loved | punct |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 loved | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 loved | nsubj |
| 30 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bonnier | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 loved | obj |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 one | fixed |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 sisters | case |
| 34 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sisters | amod |
| 35 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 loved | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the queen | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Anne | than the queen's daughter; bonnie, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love | past | king | one | like real sisters | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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