The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 102

For many nights the Queen came in the same way, but she never spoke a word, and the nurse was too frightened to say anything about her visits.

Who acts: Queen, nurse · What happens: come, not speak, be, say, visit · To what, where: same way, word, nurse, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, nurse), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoke	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 spoke	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 spoke	advmod
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 word	det
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 frightened	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 frightened	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nurse	det
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frightened	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 frightened	advmod
24	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 frightened	csubj
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 say	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 visits	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 visits	nmod:poss
30	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 anything	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Queen		the same way	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	not speak speech: other	past	Queen	a word				tree rules
3	is	past · passive		the nurse			frightened property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		anything			about nurse's visits	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
5	visit		nurse					nom visit «act transitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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