The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 42
The shepherdess threw herself at the Queen’s feet, and thanked her humbly for her gracious words.
Who acts: shepherdess, Queen · What happens: throw, thank, word · To what, where: shepherdess, feet, 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 (shepherdess, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherdess | det |
| 2 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thanked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thanked | cc |
| 12 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thanked | obj |
| 14 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 12 thanked | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 words | amod |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thanked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the shepherdess | shepherdess | the Queen's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the shepherdess not said here | Queen | for Queen's gracious words; humbly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for word=Attribute | |||
| 3 | word | Queen | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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