The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 11
The ministers replied that in that case she had better manage her kingdom alone, and the queen, who knew nothing about business, got things into such a confusion that at last she threw them up altogether, and went off to her uncle.
Who acts: ministers, queen · What happens: reply, have, manage, know, get, throw up · To what, where: case, kingdom, nothing, things, confusion, ministers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ministers, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ministers | det |
| 2 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 case | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 case | det |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 manage | advmod |
| 11 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 manage | obj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 manage | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 queen | acl:relcl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 business | case |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 confusion | case |
| 29 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 confusion | det:predet |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 confusion | det |
| 31 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 last | nsubj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 last | case |
| 34 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 confusion | amod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | nsubj |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 last | acl:relcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 threw | compound:prt |
| 39 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 36 threw | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 went | compound:prt |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 uncle | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 46 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the ministers | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | queen | that case | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | manage | infinitive | queen not said here | queen's kingdom | alone, well property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | past | the queen | nothing | about business | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | get | past | the queen | things | such confusion | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | throw up | past | queen | ministers = minister | altogether property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 7 | go off | past | the ministers not said here | to queen's uncle | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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