The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 21

Then the Queen was very much ashamed, and she saw that the King was vexed with her; so she told him all that the fairies had predicted about Rosette, and begged him to think how the misfortunes might be prevented.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: be, see, vex, tell, predict, beg · To what, where: King, matter, fairies, misfortunes · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ashamed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ashamed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashamed	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 ashamed	advmod
7	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashamed	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 vexed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 vexed	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 vexed	aux:pass
16	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 vexed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashamed	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 predicted	det:predet
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 predicted	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fairies	det
27	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 predicted	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 predicted	aux
29	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 told	ccomp
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 Rosette	case
31	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 predicted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 begged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 begged	cc
34	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashamed	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 begged	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 think	mark
37	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 begged	xcomp
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 prevented	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 misfortunes	det
40	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 prevented	nsubj:pass
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 prevented	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 prevented	aux:pass
43	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 think	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			then	ashamed property	tree rules
2	see	past	Queen					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	vex	past · passive		the King			with Queen	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	past	Queen		matter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	predict	past · perfect · passive		the fairies			about Rosette	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	beg speech: request	past	the Queen not said here		matter			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	prevent	might · passive		the misfortunes				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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