The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 132
Then the Queen touched Bruno himself, and made him gentle and polite and grateful, and he thanked her and the Princess a thousand times.
Who acts: Queen, Bruno · What happens: touch, make, thank · To what, where: Bruno, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Bruno), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 touched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 Bruno | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 polite | cc |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gentle | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grateful | cc |
| 15 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gentle | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thanked | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thanked | nsubj |
| 19 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thanked | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Princess | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thanked | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 times | nummod |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thanked | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the Queen | Bruno Bruno | then | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bruno=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Queen not said here | Bruno | gentle property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Bruno | Queen | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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