The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 67
“The Queen was in despair, but as night was coming on she ordered that they should encamp just where they were, and went to bed herself, feeling quite ill, she was so disappointed.
Who acts: Queen, night, fruits · What happens: be, come, order, encamp, feel · To what, where: despair
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, night, fruits), 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 despair | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 despair | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 despair | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 despair | case |
| 6 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 disappointed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 disappointed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 coming | mark |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 disappointed | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 encamp | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 encamp | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 encamp | aux |
| 19 | encamp | encamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 where | advmod |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 went | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | cop |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 encamp | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 bed | case |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 feeling | punct |
| 31 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 went | conj |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 ill | advmod |
| 33 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feeling | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 disappointed | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 disappointed | cop |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 disappointed | advmod |
| 38 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 despair | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the Queen | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past · progressive | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order in a quote | past | Queen | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | encamp not said to happen, in a quote | should | fruits = fruit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | fruits = fruit | to bed; Queen obl; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel in a quote | gerund | fruits = fruit not said here | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | Queen | disappointed 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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