The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 65

“So when the Queen had another little daughter she was quite frightened, and agreed with her sister (who was a fairy) to exchange her for the fairy’s little son.

Who acts: Queen, little daughter, sister · What happens: have, frighten, agree, be, exchange · To what, where: little daughter, Queen, fairy

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, little daughter, sister), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 daughter	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughter	amod
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 frightened	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 frightened	aux:pass
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 frightened	advmod
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 daughter	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 agreed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 agreed	cc
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 sister	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sister	nmod:poss
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agreed	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 fairy	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fairy	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fairy	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fairy	det
24	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sister	appos
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 fairy	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 exchange	mark
27	exchange	exchange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 agreed	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 exchange	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 son	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fairy	det
31	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 fairy	case
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 son	amod
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 exchange	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	the Queen	another little daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	frighten in a quote	past · passive	another little daughter not said here	Queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	agree speech: agree in a quote	past	the Queen not said here		with Queen's sister	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S_INF»: agent=Agent with sister=Co-Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	past	Queen's sister	a fairy		tree rules
5	exchange not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	Queen	for the fairy's little son	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme for son=Co-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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