The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 46

When she saw the unlucky cabbage Felicia was much distressed, and did not know what to do; but at last she ran back to the fountain, and, kneeling before the Queen, said:

Who acts: Felicia · What happens: see, distress, not know, do, run back, kneel · To what, where: unlucky cabbage, Felicia, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Felicia), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cabbage	det
5	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cabbage	amod
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 distressed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 distressed	aux:pass
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 distressed	advmod
10	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cabbage	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ran	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ran	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 fountain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fountain	det
28	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kneeling	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kneeling	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kneeling	punct
32	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
33	before	before	ADP	_	35 Queen	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Queen	det
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 kneeling	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Felicia	the unlucky cabbage				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus
2	distress	past · passive		Felicia				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	not know	past · do-support	Felicia not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	run back	past	Felicia		last		to the fountain result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fountain=Result
6	kneel	gerund	Felicia not said here			before the Queen		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before queen=Location
7	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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