The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 83

The queen was very angry, and scolded her well; but as she longed to have the distaff she consented, though she gave the king a sleeping draught at supper.

Who acts: queen, girl · What happens: be, scold, long, have, consent, give · To what, where: girl, distaff, sleeping draught, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, girl), 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	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scolded	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scolded	cc
8	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scolded	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 scolded	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 longed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 longed	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 longed	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 longed	nsubj
15	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 longed	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 distaff	det
19	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 consented	nsubj
21	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 distaff	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 gave	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 longed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 draught	det
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 draught	amod
30	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 supper	case
32	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 draught	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the queen			angry property	tree rules
2	scold	past		girl		well property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	long	past	girl				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the distaff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Patient
5	consent	past	girl	the distaff not said here			tree rules
6	give	past	girl	a sleeping draught	the king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient draught=Theme
7	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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