The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 33
And the queen started up, and stood on her tail, so excited was she.
Who acts: queen · What happens: start up, stand, be · To what, where: excited, tail, thing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 started | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 started | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 excited | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 excited | advmod |
| 14 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 she | cop |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 excited | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | the queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the queen not said here | excited | thing's tail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tail=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | thing | tree rules |
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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