The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 24

One was too harsh, and another reminded the queen of somebody she did not like; but at length an idea flashed into the queen's head, and she called out:

Who acts: One, another, queen · What happens: be, remind, not like, flash, call out · To what, where: queen, idea, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, another, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 harsh	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harsh	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 harsh	advmod
4	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reminded	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reminded	cc
7	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 reminded	nsubj
8	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harsh	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reminded	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 somebody	case
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 queen	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 somebody	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 called	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 called	obl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 idea	det
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 length	appos
23	flashed	flash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 idea	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	28 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 queen	det
26	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 queen	case
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flashed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 called	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 harsh	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 called	compound:prt
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 harsh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	One				harsh property	tree rules
2	remind speech: other	past	another		the queen of somebody			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
3	not like	past · do-support	queen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	flash	participle		a idea not said here		the queen's head		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into head=Recipient
5	call out speech: assert	past	queen				at length	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at length=Stimulus

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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