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The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 66

Now the Queen had been shut up in a great tower by the King’s orders, and when a great many days went by and still she heard nothing from the Fairy she made her escape from the window by means of a rope ladder, taking her little baby with her.

Who acts: orders, great many days, Queen, King · What happens: shut up, go by, hear, make, escape, mean · To what, where: Queen, great tower, nothing, fairy, window, little baby · 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 (orders, great many days, Queen, King), 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

advmoddetnsubjauxaux:passcompound:prtcasedetamodoblcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmoddetamodamodnsubjparataxisoblccadvmodnsubjconjobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclobjccompcasedetoblcaseparataxiscasedetcompoundoblpunctparataxisnmod:possamodobjcaseoblpunctrootNowADVtheDETQueenPROPNhadAUXbeenAUXshutVERBupADPinADPaDETgreatADJtowerNOUNbyADPtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTordersNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVaDETgreatADJmanyADJdaysNOUNwentVERBbyADPandCCONJstillADVshePRONheardVERBnothingPRONfromADPtheDETFairyNOUNshePRONmadeVERBherPRONescapeVERBfromADPtheDETwindowNOUNbyADPmeansVERBofADPaDETropeNOUNladderNOUN,PUNCTtakingVERBherPRONlittleADJbabyNOUNwithADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem6 shutadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Queendet
3QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing6 shutnsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 shutaux
5beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 shutaux:pass
6shutshutVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7upupADP_6 shutcompound:prt
8ininADP_11 towercase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 towerdet
10greatgreatADJDegree=Pos11 toweramod
11towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing6 shutobl
12bybyADP_16 orderscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Kingdet
14KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing16 ordersnmod:poss
15’s'sPART_14 Kingcase
16ordersorderNOUNNumber=Plur6 shutobl
17,,PUNCT_24 wentpunct
18andandCCONJ_24 wentcc
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int24 wentadvmod
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 daysdet
21greatgreatADJDegree=Pos23 daysamod
22manymanyADJDegree=Pos23 daysamod
23daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur24 wentnsubj
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 shutparataxis
25bybyADP_24 wentobl
26andandCCONJ_29 heardcc
27stillstillADV_29 heardadvmod
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 heardnsubj
29heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 wentconj
30nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg29 heardobj
31fromfromADP_33 Fairycase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 Fairydet
33FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing29 heardobl
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 madensubj
35mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 Fairyacl:relcl
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 madeobj
37escapeescapeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 heardccomp
38fromfromADP_40 windowcase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 windowdet
40windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing37 escapeobl
41bybyADP_42 meanscase
42meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 escapeparataxis
43ofofADP_46 laddercase
44aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 ladderdet
45roperopeNOUNNumber=Sing46 laddercompound
46ladderladderNOUNNumber=Sing42 meansobl
47,,PUNCT_48 takingpunct
48takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part42 meansparataxis
49herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs51 babynmod:poss
50littlelittleADJDegree=Pos51 babyamod
51babybabyNOUNNumber=Sing48 takingobj
52withwithADP_53 hercase
53hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs48 takingobl
54..PUNCT_6 shutpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1shut uppast · perfect · passivethe King's ordersthe Queena great towernowvn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2go bypasta great many daysvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3hearpastQueennothingstillfrom the Fairytree rules
4makepastQueenfairyvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
5escapeinfinitivethe windowvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial_Location
6meanpresentof a rope laddervn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7takegerundQueen's little babywith Queenvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
8orderthe Kingnom order «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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