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The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 33

The Queen, a little comforted by these words, received her graciously, and begged her to take pity upon the poor little Princess, who had met with such a sudden reverse of fortune.

Who acts: Queen, poor little Princess · What happens: comfort, receive, beg, take, meet · To what, where: little, horse, Queen, pity

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, poor little Princess), 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

detnsubjpunctdetobl:unmarkedaclcasedetoblpunctobjadvmodpunctccconjobjmarkxcompobjcasedetamodamodoblpunctnsubjauxaclcasedet:predetdetamodoblcasenmodpunctrootTheDETQueenPROPN,PUNCTaDETlittleADJcomfortedVERBbyADPtheseDETwordsNOUN,PUNCTreceivedVERBherPRONgraciouslyADV,PUNCTandCCONJbeggedVERBherPRONtoPARTtakeVERBpityNOUNuponADPtheDETpoorADJlittleADJPrincessPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXmetVERBwithADPsuchDETaDETsuddenADJreverseNOUNofADPfortuneNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Queendet
2QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing11 receivednsubj
3,,PUNCT_6 comfortedpunct
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 littledet
5littlelittleADJDegree=Pos6 comfortedobl:unmarked
6comfortedcomfortVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 Queenacl
7bybyADP_9 wordscase
8thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem9 wordsdet
9wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur6 comfortedobl
10,,PUNCT_2 Queenpunct
11receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 receivedobj
13graciouslygraciouslyADV_11 receivedadvmod
14,,PUNCT_16 beggedpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 beggedcc
16beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 receivedconj
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 beggedobj
18totoPART_19 takemark
19taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf16 beggedxcomp
20pitypityNOUNNumber=Sing19 takeobj
21uponuponADP_25 Princesscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Princessdet
23poorpoorADJDegree=Pos25 Princessamod
24littlelittleADJDegree=Pos25 Princessamod
25PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing19 takeobl
26,,PUNCT_29 metpunct
27whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 metnsubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 metaux
29metmeetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 Princessacl
30withwithADP_34 reversecase
31suchsuchDETPronType=Ind34 reversedet:predet
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 reversedet
33suddensuddenADJDegree=Pos34 reverseamod
34reversereverseNOUNNumber=Sing29 metobl
35ofofADP_36 fortunecase
36fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing34 reversenmod
37..PUNCT_11 receivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comfortparticiplethe Queen not said herea littleby this wordsvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2receivepastthe Queenhorsegraciously propertyvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3beg speech: requestpastthe Queen not said hereQueenvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4take not said to happento-infinitivethe Queen not said herepityupon the poor little Princessvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme
5meetpast · perfectthe poor little Princesswith such sudden reverse of fortunevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reverse=Co-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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