The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 101
Had she thrown him up straight? the queen wondered anxiously, for, if not, he would fall outside the walls, and she would lose him for ever.
Who acts: queen, prince · What happens: not throw up, wonder, fall, lose · To what, where: prince, walls
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, prince), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrown | nsubj |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 fall | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrown | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 thrown | compound:prt |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 thrown | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wondered | nsubj |
| 10 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | parataxis |
| 11 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 10 wondered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 thrown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 not | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 not | mark |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 thrown | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fall | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fall | aux |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 23 walls | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 walls | det |
| 23 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fall | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lose | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lose | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lose | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lose | aux |
| 28 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fall | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lose | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 ever | case |
| 31 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 lose | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not throw up | past · perfect | queen | prince | straight property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the queen | anxiously property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fall | would | prince | the walls | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | ||||
| 4 | lose | would | queen | prince | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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