The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 48
The queen was so enchanted at this news that she nearly fainted with joy; but when she was able to speak, she poured out all her gratitude to the fairies for their promised gift.
Who acts: queen, fairies · What happens: enchant, faint, be, speak, pour out, promise · To what, where: queen, news, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, fairies), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 enchanted | advmod |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 fainted | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fainted | nsubj |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 fainted | advmod |
| 12 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 news | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fainted | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 able | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 able | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enchanted | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 poured | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 poured | nsubj |
| 25 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 poured | advmod |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 gratitude | advmod |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 29 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 poured | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 fairies | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fairies | det |
| 32 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 poured | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 gift | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 gift | nmod:poss |
| 35 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 gift | amod |
| 36 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 poured | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · passive | the queen | this news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | faint | past | queen | this news not said here | with joy; nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | queen | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pour out | past | queen | queen's gratitude | to the fairies; for fairies's promised gift; out property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fairy=Location | |||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | gift | fairies = fairy | nom gift «possession 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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