The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 57
And not caring what she did, she left the palace and seating herself under a yew tree, poured out all her grief.
Who acts: queen, yew tree · What happens: not care, do, leave, seat, pour out · To what, where: palace, queen, yew tree, grief
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, yew tree), 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 | _ | 3 caring | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 caring | advmod |
| 3 | caring | care | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 caring | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 caring | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caring | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seating | cc |
| 13 | seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caring | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 seating | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 17 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seating | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poured | punct |
| 20 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tree | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 poured | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 grief | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grief | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poured | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | queen | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seat | gerund | queen | a yew tree | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | ||||
| 5 | pour out | participle | a yew tree not said here | queen's grief | out property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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