The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 2

“Ah, traitress!” he exclaimed, and ordering the horses to be turned round, he drove the elder daughter, quivering with rage, to the old woman who had sought to deceive him.

Who acts: prince, old woman · What happens: exclaim, order, turn round, drive, quiver, seek · To what, where: traitress, horses, elder daughter, prince

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, old woman), 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	_	4 traitress	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 traitress	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	traitress	traitress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 traitress	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 traitress	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 exclaimed	nsubj
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drove	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drove	cc
11	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 drove	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horses	det
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ordering	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 turned	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 turned	aux:pass
16	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 horses	acl:relcl
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 turned	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ordering	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drove	nsubj
20	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 exclaimed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
22	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drove	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quivering	punct
25	quivering	quiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 drove	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 rage	case
27	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quivering	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 woman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quivering	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sought	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sought	aux
35	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 woman	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 deceive	mark
37	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sought	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 deceive	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	prince	traitress			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	order	gerund	prince not said here		the horses		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	turn round	to-infinitive · passive	prince not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»
4	drive	past	prince	the elder daughter			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
5	quiver	gerund	prince not said here			with rage; to the old woman	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	seek	past · perfect	the old woman				tree rules
7	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	prince			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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