The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 59

Indeed, she would most likely have died had not the Lion Fairy taken a fancy that the child and her mother should go hunting with her in the upper world, and, in spite of her sorrows, it was always a joy to the queen to see the sun again.

Who acts: queen, child · What happens: die, not take, go, hunt, be, see · To what, where: Lion Fairy, upper world, joy, spite, sun, sorrows

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 (queen, child), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 taken	advcl
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 taken	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 taken	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fairy	compound
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl:unmarked
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fancy	det
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mother	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 child	conj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 taken	advcl
25	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 go	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hunting	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
30	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 world	amod
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hunting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 joy	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 joy	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 and	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 spite	case
36	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 joy	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 sorrows	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sorrows	nmod:poss
39	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 spite	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spite	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 joy	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 joy	cop
43	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 joy	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 joy	det
45	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 queen	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 queen	det
48	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 joy	nmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 see	mark
50	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 queen	acl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sun	det
52	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 see	obj
53	again	again	ADV	_	50 see	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	queen				indeed, likely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not take	participle · perfect		the Lion Fairy				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
3	go	should	the child and queen's mother					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hunt	gerund	the child and queen's mother not said here		the upper world		with queen	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in world=Location
5	is a	past	child	a joy	spite of queen's sorrows		to the queen; always property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	child not said here	the sun		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
7	spite			queen's sorrows				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	sorrow		queen					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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