The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 89

The Queen of the Immortals was watching from her window, and cried to Death that he had no power in her kingdom, and that he must seek his prey elsewhere.

Who acts: Queen, death · What happens: watch, cry, have, seek · To what, where: window, Death, power, kingdom, prey

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, death), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 watching	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Immortals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Immortals	det
5	Immortals	Immortal	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Queen	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 window	nmod:poss
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watching	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Death	case
15	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 power	det
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 kingdom	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 kingdom	nmod:poss
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seek	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 seek	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seek	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 seek	aux
29	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 prey	nmod:poss
31	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seek	obj
32	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	29 seek	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the Queen of the Immortals			queen's window		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past			Death			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to death=Recipient
3	have	past	death	no power		queen's kingdom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	seek	must	death	death's prey			elsewhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme

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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