The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 141
So she hurried back to her castle, where the Queen sat busy with her embroidery, and cried:
Who acts: fairy, Queen · What happens: hurry back, sit, cry, embroider · To what, where: castle
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 (fairy, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 sat | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 13 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sat | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 embroidery | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 embroidery | nmod:poss |
| 16 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry back | past | fairy | fairy's castle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the Queen | with fairy's embroidery; busy property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | fairy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | embroider | fairy | nom embroidery «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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