The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 68

The queen, almost dumb with terror, in vain tried to think of some explanation or apology; but there was none, and she could only confess her fault and implore forgiveness.

Who acts: queen, none · What happens: try, think, be, confess, implore, fault · To what, where: fault, forgiveness

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, none), 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	11 tried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 dumb	advmod
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 queen	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 terror	case
7	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dumb	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vain	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 vain	case
10	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dumb	conj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 explanation	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 explanation	det
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 apology	cc
18	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 explanation	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	parataxis
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 was	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 confess	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 confess	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 confess	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 confess	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 confess	advmod
29	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	parataxis
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fault	nmod:poss
31	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 confess	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 implore	cc
33	implore	implore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 confess	conj
34	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 implore	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the queen				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the queen not said here			of some explanation or apology	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	confess	could	queen	queen's fault			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
5	implore	infinitive	queen not said here	forgiveness			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient
6	fault		queen				nom fault «act 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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