The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 55
“Oh, you must not wonder at her pale face and heavy eyes,” said the queen hastily, for she saw what was passing in his mind.
Who acts: you, queen, Prince · What happens: not wonder, say, see, pass, mind · To what, where: pale face, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 wonder | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wonder | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wonder | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wonder | advmod |
| 7 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eyes | cc |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 face | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wonder | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 saw | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 passing | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 passing | aux |
| 27 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 passing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wonder speech: ask in a quote | must | you | girl's pale face and heavy eyes | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pass | past · progressive | Prince's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||||
| 5 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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