The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 7
She almost died of joy at seeing him again, but after a little she remembered his sick friend, and ordered a bed to be made ready and the best doctors in all the country to be sent for.
Who acts: queen · What happens: die, see, remember, order, make, send · To what, where: son, sick friend, bed
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 died | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seeing | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 seeing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 little | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remembered | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remembered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ordered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 made | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | aux:pass |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ordered | ccomp |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 made | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 doctors | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 doctors | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 doctors | amod |
| 32 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 died | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 country | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 country | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 doctors | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sent | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 sent | aux:pass |
| 39 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 country | acl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 sent | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | queen | of joy; almost property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of joy=Causer | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | queen not said here | son | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | remember | past | queen | son's sick friend | after a little | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 4 | order | past | a bed | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bed=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 6 | send | to-infinitive · passive | queen not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
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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