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The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 101

When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken, and begged the Fairy to do all she could to get the poor little Princess back again.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: hear, break, beg, do, get · To what, where: terrible news, Queen, Fairy, all, poor little Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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

advmoddetnsubjadvcldetamodobjnsubjaux:passcompoundpunctccomppunctccdetobjmarkxcompobjnsubjnmodmarkadvcldetamodamodobjadvmodadvmodpunctrootWhenADVtheDETQueenPROPNheardVERBthisDETterribleADJnewsNOUNshePRONwasAUXheartNOUN-PUNCTbrokenVERB,PUNCTandCCONJbeggedVERBtheDETFairyNOUNtoPARTdoVERBallDETshePRONcouldAUXtoPARTgetVERBtheDETpoorADJlittleADJPrincessNOUNbackADVagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 heardadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Queendet
3QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing4 heardnsubj
4heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 beggedadvcl
5thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 newsdet
6terribleterribleADJDegree=Pos7 newsamod
7newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing4 heardobj
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 brokennsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 brokenaux:pass
10heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing12 brokencompound
11--PUNCT_10 heartpunct
12brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 heardccomp
13,,PUNCT_15 beggedpunct
14andandCCONJ_15 beggedcc
15beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Fairydet
17FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing15 beggedobj
18totoPART_19 domark
19dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf15 beggedxcomp
20allallDETPronType=Tot19 doobj
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 couldnsubj
22couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin20 allnmod
23totoPART_24 getmark
24getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf19 doadvcl
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 Princessdet
26poorpoorADJDegree=Pos28 Princessamod
27littlelittleADJDegree=Pos28 Princessamod
28PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing24 getobj
29backbackADV_30 againadvmod
30againagainADV_24 getadvmod
31..PUNCT_15 beggedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastthe Queenthis terrible newstree rules
2breakpast · passiveQueenvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3beg speech: requestpastthe Fairyvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic
4do not said to happento-infinitiveallvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
5getto-infinitivethe poor little Princessagainvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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