The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 52

At first the queen could think of nothing but her new plaything, but then she remembered the fairies who had sent it to her.

Who acts: queen, fairies · What happens: think, remember, send · To what, where: fairies, plaything, queen

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 think	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 think	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 plaything	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plaything	nmod:poss
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plaything	amod
12	plaything	plaything	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remembered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 remembered	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 remembered	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remembered	nsubj
17	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fairies	det
19	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remembered	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sent	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 fairies	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	could	the queen				of nothing; first property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	past	queen	the fairies		then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
3	send	past · perfect	the fairies	plaything	queen			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Destination

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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