The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 20

She was so much pressed by her curiosity that, without considering that it was very uncivil to leave her company, she went down a little back staircase, and with such excessive haste that she had twice or thrice like to have broken her neck.

Who acts: curiosity, it, manner · What happens: press, consider, be, leave, go down, have · To what, where: manner, company, little back staircase, neck

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, it, manner), 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	5 pressed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 pressed	advmod
5	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 curiosity	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 curiosity	nmod:poss
8	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pressed	obl
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pressed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 considering	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 considering	mark
12	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pressed	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 uncivil	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 uncivil	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 uncivil	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 uncivil	advmod
17	uncivil	uncivil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 considering	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 leave	mark
19	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 uncivil	csubj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 company	nmod:poss
21	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 uncivil	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 staircase	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 staircase	amod
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 staircase	compound
29	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 haste	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 haste	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 haste	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 haste	amod
34	excessive	excessive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 haste	amod
35	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pressed	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 haste	advcl
39	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 thrice	advmod
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 thrice	cc
41	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	38 had	advmod
42	like	like	SCONJ	_	45 broken	mark
43	to	to	PART	_	45 broken	mark
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 broken	aux
45	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 thrice	advcl
46	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 neck	nmod:poss
47	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 broken	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	past · passive	manner's curiosity	manner	with such excessive haste	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme that=Result
2	consider	gerund	manner's curiosity not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it		uncivil property	tree rules
4	leave	to-infinitive		manner's company		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
5	go down	past	manner	a little back staircase	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	have	past	manner		thrice property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	break	to-infinitive · perfect	manner not said here	manner's neck		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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