The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 96

This was hitherto all mighty well; but one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen:

Who acts: This · What happens: be, say · To what, where: 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 (This), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mighty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mighty	cop
3	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	5 mighty	advmod
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 mighty	advmod
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 mighty	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 evening	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 evening	nummod
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Queen	nsubj
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Queen	amod
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 evening	appos
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mighty	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 clerk	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 clerk	nmod:poss
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 kitchen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kitchen	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clerk	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 mighty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This					all, hitherto, mighty, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	This 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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