The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 93
She managed, too, to make her figure and general appearance look like the Queen’s, but even her power could not restore the eye she had lost; so she made her lie on the side of the missing eye, in order to prevent the King’s noticing anything.
Who acts: Queen, general appearance, power · What happens: manage, make, look, not restore, lose, lie · To what, where: figure, eye, power, side, King, anything
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, general appearance, power), 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 | 2 managed | nsubj |
| 2 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 managed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 managed | parataxis |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 figure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 11 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appearance | amod |
| 12 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | nsubj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Queen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Queen | case |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 restore | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 restore | cc |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 power | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 power | nmod:poss |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 restore | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 restore | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 restore | advmod |
| 25 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 look | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eye | det |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 restore | obj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lost | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 eye | acl:relcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 made | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 made | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 managed | parataxis |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | obj |
| 36 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 made | xcomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 side | det |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lie | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 eye | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 eye | det |
| 42 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 eye | amod |
| 43 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 side | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 prevent | punct |
| 45 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 48 prevent | mark |
| 46 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 in | fixed |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 prevent | mark |
| 48 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 lie | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 King | det |
| 50 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 prevent | obj |
| 51 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 50 King | case |
| 52 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 prevent | advcl |
| 53 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 52 noticing | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | Queen | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Queen's figure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product | |||||
| 3 | look | present | general appearance | like the Queen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not restore | could | Queen's power | the eye | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect | Queen | the eye not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Queen | power | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | lie | infinitive | power not said here | the side of the missing eye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 8 | prevent | to-infinitive | power not said here | the King | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer king=Theme | ||||
| 9 | notice | gerund | power not said here | anything | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | figure | Queen | nom figure «communication 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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