The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 54
The Queen was so confused that at first she did not notice another little door in the orange tree, but presently it opened and she found herself in a field of thistles and nettles.
Who acts: Queen, door · What happens: be, not notice, open, find · To what, where: little door, orange tree, queen, field
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:412): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 confused | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 confused | advmod |
| 5 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 notice | mark |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 notice | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 notice | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 notice | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 notice | advmod |
| 12 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confused | advcl |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 door | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 door | amod |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 notice | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 22 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 24 opened | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | nsubj |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 opened | conj |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 field | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 field | det |
| 31 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 thistles | case |
| 33 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 field | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 nettles | cc |
| 35 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 thistles | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not notice | past · do-support | queen | another little door | the orange tree | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | open | past | door | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | queen | queen | a field of thistles and nettles | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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