The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 13

The Queen said that she had been sitting too near the fire, and had burnt all the flax that was upon her distaff.

Who acts: Queen, flax · What happens: say, sit, burnt, be · To what, where: fire, flax · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, flax), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sitting	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sitting	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burnt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 burnt	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 burnt	aux
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 flax	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flax	det
19	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burnt	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 distaff	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 distaff	cop
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 distaff	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 distaff	nmod:poss
24	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flax	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	past · perfect · progressive	Queen		the fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near fire=Location
3	burnt	past · perfect		all flax			tree rules
4	is	past	all flax			upon Queen's distaff	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 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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