The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 83
Then she reminded the Queen of her agreement, and led her back to the camp, and next morning she went back to her kingdom, but before she had gone very far she began to repent of her bargain, and when the King came out to meet her she looked so sad that he guessed that something had happened, and asked what was the matter.
Who acts: Queen, King, something, matter · What happens: remind, lead back, go back, go, begin, repent · To what, where: Queen, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King, something, matter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reminded | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reminded | nsubj |
| 3 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reminded | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 agreement | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 agreement | nmod:poss |
| 8 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Queen | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reminded | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 led | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 camp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 camp | det |
| 16 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 morning | amod |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reminded | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 kingdom | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gone | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 gone | cc |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 gone | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gone | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | aux |
| 32 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reminded | parataxis |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 far | advmod |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 began | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 began | nsubj |
| 36 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 repent | mark |
| 38 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 began | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 bargain | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 41 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 repent | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 looked | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 looked | cc |
| 44 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 47 came | mark |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 King | det |
| 46 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 came | nsubj |
| 47 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 looked | advcl |
| 48 | out | out | ADV | _ | 47 came | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 meet | mark |
| 50 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 came | advcl |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 meet | obj |
| 52 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 looked | nsubj |
| 53 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reminded | conj |
| 54 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 sad | advmod |
| 55 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 looked | xcomp |
| 56 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 guessed | mark |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 guessed | nsubj |
| 58 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 sad | advcl |
| 59 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 happened | mark |
| 60 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 62 happened | nsubj |
| 61 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 happened | aux |
| 62 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 58 guessed | ccomp |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 asked | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 asked | cc |
| 65 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reminded | parataxis |
| 66 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 65 asked | ccomp |
| 67 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 66 what | cop |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 matter | det |
| 69 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 what | nsubj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | Queen | the Queen of Queen's agreement | then | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lead back | past | Queen not said here | Queen | the camp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to camp=Destination | |||
| 3 | go back | past | Queen | morning | to Queen's kingdom result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result | |||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | Queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | Queen | far property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | repent | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | of Queen's bargain | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come out | past | the King | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | meet | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Queen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 9 | look | past | Queen | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | guess | past | King | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 11 | happen | past · perfect | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 12 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 13 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 14 | agree | Queen | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 15 | bargain | Queen | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: 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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