The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 37
Then the Queen ordered that a place should be made for her at the table, and herself loaded Felicia’s plate with good things; but she was too much astonished to be hungry.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: order, make, load, be · To what, where: place, table, plate
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), 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 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 loaded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loaded | cc |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 loaded | nsubj |
| 19 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 20 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 plate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Felicia | case |
| 22 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loaded | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loaded | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 astonished | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 astonished | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 astonished | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 astonished | cop |
| 30 | too | too | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 astonished | amod |
| 32 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ordered | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 hungry | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 hungry | cop |
| 35 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 astonished | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Queen | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | should · passive | a place | the table | for Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | load | past | Queen | Felicia's plate | with good things | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Destination with thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | Queen | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | hungry property | tree rules |
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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