The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 34
And she whispered some words to the queen, who seemed much pleased, and went off at once to see the king.
Who acts: Hold, queen · What happens: whisper, seem, go off, see · To what, where: words, queen, king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hold, queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 whispered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whispered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 queen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 pleased | advmod |
| 13 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whispered | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Hold | some words | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the queen | pleased property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | Hold not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Hold not said here | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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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