The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 107

Exceedingly was she delighted with her cruelty, and she had invented a story to tell the King, at his return, how the mad wolves had eaten up the Queen his wife and her two children.

Who acts: Exceedingly, Ogress · What happens: be, invent, tell, eat up, return · To what, where: story, King, return, mad wolves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Exceedingly, Ogress), 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	Exceedingly	Exceedingly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cruelty	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cruelty	nmod:poss
7	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 invented	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 invented	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 invented	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 invented	aux
12	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 delighted	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 invented	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 return	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 return	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 return	nmod:poss
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eaten	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 eaten	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolves	det
26	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wolves	amod
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eaten	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 return	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 eaten	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Queen	det
32	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 eaten	appos
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wife	nmod:poss
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eaten	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 children	cc
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 children	nmod:poss
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 children	nummod
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wife	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Exceedingly				with Exceedingly's cruelty; delighted property	tree rules
2	invent	past · perfect	Exceedingly	a story				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Exceedingly not said here		the King	Ogress's return		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	eat up	past · perfect · passive		the mad wolves				tree rules
5	return		Ogress					nom return «communication 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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