The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 24

But the Queen cried that she would far rather have her own head cut off, and that he had better think of something else, for she would never consent to such a thing.

Who acts: Queen, own head, turn, something · What happens: cry, have, cut off, not consent, think · To what, where: own head, better think · 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, own head, turn, something), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 have	advmod
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 head	amod
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 have	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	parataxis
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 think	amod
22	think	think	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 something	case
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 think	nmod
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 something	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 consent	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 consent	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 consent	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 consent	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 consent	advmod
31	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 thing	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 thing	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 thing	det
35	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 consent	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Queen			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	would	Queen	Queen's own head	far property	tree rules
3	cut off	participle	Queen's own head not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	have	past	turn	better think of something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Patient
5	not consent	would	Queen		to such thing	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme
6	think		something			nom think «cognition intransitive»: of=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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