The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 88

The old witch thought here was a good chance for her; so she took the form of the lady in waiting, and, hurrying into the room where the Queen lay in her bed, called out, ‘The bath is quite ready; it will help to make you strong again.

Who acts: old witch, good chance, chance, lady, Queen, hurrying · What happens: think, be, take, wait, hurry, lie · To what, where: form, room, bed, you, lady · 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 (old witch, good chance, chance, lady), 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	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chance	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chance	amod
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chance	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 form	det
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lady	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 form	nmod
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 waiting	mark
22	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 lady	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 called	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hurrying	punct
26	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 called	csubj:pass
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hurrying	obl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lay	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Queen	det
32	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 room	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bed	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bed	nmod:poss
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
38	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 took	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 called	compound:prt
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 ready	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 ready	punct
42	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bath	det
43	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ready	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 ready	cop
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 ready	advmod
46	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 took	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 help	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 help	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 help	aux
50	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 make	mark
52	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 help	xcomp
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 make	obj
54	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 make	xcomp
55	again	again	ADV	_	52 make	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the old witch		here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	a good chance for witch					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	chance	the form of the lady				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
4	wait	gerund	the lady not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hurry	gerund			the room			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
6	lie	past	the Queen		Queen's bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
7	call out speech: assert	participle	hurrying					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	the bath				ready property	tree rules
9	help	future	bath					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	make	to-infinitive	bath not said here	you		again	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
11	form			the lady				nom form «communication transitive»: of=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 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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