The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 84
Some few days afterward she went thither herself, and said to her clerk of the kitchen:
Who acts: queen · What happens: go, say · To what, where: queen, clerk · 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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 8 herself | advmod |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 clerk | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 clerk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clerk | nmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | queen | queen | day | afterward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen not said here | queen's clerk of the kitchen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clerk=Recipient |
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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