The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 28

The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King when they saw, advancing toward them from the end of the long gallery, two great basilisks, dragging after them a very badly made box; behind them came a tall old woman, whose ugliness was even more surprising than her extreme old age.

Who acts: Queen, bags, ugliness · What happens: be, set out, see, advance, drag, make · To what, where: end, made box

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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, bags, ugliness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ready	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Princess	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Queen	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 ready	advmod
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 set	mark
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ready	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 set	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 set	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 advancing	punct
19	advancing	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 saw	xcomp
20	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 advancing	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 end	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 advancing	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 gallery	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gallery	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gallery	amod
28	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 end	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 basilisks	punct
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 basilisks	nummod
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 basilisks	amod
32	basilisks	basilisk	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gallery	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dragging	punct
34	dragging	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 advancing	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dragging	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 box	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 badly	advmod
39	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 made	advmod
40	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 box	amod
41	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dragging	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 came	punct
43	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 came	mark
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 came	nsubj
45	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 woman	det
47	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	amod
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	amod
49	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 came	nsubj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 surprising	punct
51	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	52 ugliness	nmod:poss
52	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 surprising	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 surprising	cop
54	even	even	ADV	_	55 more	advmod
55	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	56 surprising	advmod
56	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 woman	conj
57	than	than	ADP	_	61 age	case
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 age	nmod:poss
59	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 age	amod
60	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 age	amod
61	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 surprising	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen and the Princess			ready property	tree rules
2	set out	to-infinitive	the Queen and the Princess not said here			with the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	bags = bag				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	advance	gerund	bags = bag not said here		from the end of the long gallery and two great basilisks	toward bags = bag	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme toward they=Initial_Location from end=Destination
5	drag	gerund	bags = bag not said here	a made box	after bags = bag		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	make	participle				badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	come	past	bags = bag				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	ugliness		than Princess's extreme old age	surprising 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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