The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 23
She was furiously angry and told the maiden that she had brought down misery both on herself and on the Prince.
Who acts: thread · What happens: be, tell, bring down · To what, where: maiden, misery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 told | ccomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 brought | compound:prt |
| 14 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | both | both | ADV | _ | 17 herself | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 brought | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Prince | cc |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 herself | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thread | angry, furiously property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | thread not said here | the maiden | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring down | past · perfect | thread | misery | on thread | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misery=Theme on herself=Destination |
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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