The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 172

It was just at this moment that the Queen and the Fairy arrived in the flying chariot, and the Queen was dreadfully distressed at the turn affairs had taken, and said miserably that she was destined to be unfortunate all her days.

Who acts: dungeon, Queen · What happens: be, arrive, fly, distress, take, say · To what, where: flying chariot, Queen, turn affairs · 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 (dungeon, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moment	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 moment	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Fairy	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Queen	conj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 chariot	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chariot	det
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 chariot	amod
17	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 distressed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 distressed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Queen	det
21	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 distressed	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 distressed	aux:pass
23	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	24 distressed	advmod
24	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arrived	conj
25	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 taken	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 affairs	det
27	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 affairs	compound
28	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 taken	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 distressed	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moment	parataxis
34	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 destined	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 destined	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 destined	aux:pass
38	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 said	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	41 unfortunate	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 unfortunate	cop
41	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 destined	xcomp
42	all	all	ADV	_	44 days	advmod
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 days	nmod:poss
44	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 unfortunate	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dungeon			at this moment		tree rules
2	arrive	past	the Queen and the Fairy		the flying chariot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	distress	past · passive		the Queen			dreadfully property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	take	past · perfect · passive		the turn affairs				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past					miserably property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	destine	past · passive		Queen				tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive				day	unfortunate property	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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