English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 3
The queen was jealous of the king's daughter being bonnier than her own, and cast about to spoil her beauty.
Who acts: queen, daughter · What happens: be, cast about, spoil · To what, where: beauty
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 (queen, daughter), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jealous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | cop |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 bonnier | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bonnier | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bonnier | cop |
| 11 | bonnier | bonnie | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 jealous | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 own | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bonnier | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cast | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cast | cc |
| 17 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 cast | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spoil | mark |
| 20 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cast | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoil | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the king's daughter | than queen's own; bonnie property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cast about | present | the queen not said here | about property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spoil | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen's beauty | 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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