The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 8
The Queen, when she heard of it, was frightened out of her wits, and began to cry bitterly.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: hear, frighten, begin, cry · To what, where: Queen, wits
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux:pass |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 wits | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wits | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wits | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 frightened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cry | mark |
| 20 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 20 cry | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Queen | of news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | the Queen | Queen's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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