The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 11

In front was a flight of steps, and on these the queen was sitting wrapped in a veil of shining silver mist, listening to the complaints of her people and dealing out justice.

Who acts: veil, people · What happens: be, wrap, shine, listen, deal out, complain · To what, where: flight, front, veil, silver mist, justice

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 (veil, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 front	case
2	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flight	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flight	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flight	det
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 steps	case
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flight	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrapped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrapped	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 queen	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 queen	det
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wrapped	aux:pass
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flight	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 veil	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 veil	det
19	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrapped	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 shining	mark
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 veil	acl
22	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mist	amod
23	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shining	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 listening	punct
25	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wrapped	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 complaints	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 complaints	det
28	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 listening	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 people	nmod:poss
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 complaints	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dealing	cc
33	dealing	deal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 listening	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 dealing	compound:prt
35	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dealing	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a flight	front	of steps	tree rules
2	wrap	gerund · passive			a veil		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: in veil=Destination
3	shine	gerund	a veil not said here	silver mist			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mist=Theme
4	listen	gerund				to the complaints of princess's people	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to complaint=Theme
5	deal out	gerund		justice			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Theme
6	complain		princess's people				nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=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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