The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 8
As she was as cross as she was ugly, she could not bear to hear everyone saying how pretty and how charming Graciosa was; so she presently went away from the court to her own castle, which was not far off.
Who acts: Queen, own castle · What happens: be, not bear, hear, say, charm, go away · To what, where: everyone, Graciosa, court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, own castle), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 cross | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 cross | advmod |
| 5 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 ugly | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ugly | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ugly | cop |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cross | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bear | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bear | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bear | advmod |
| 14 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bear | xcomp |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 hear | obj |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 everyone | acl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 pretty | advmod |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 18 saying | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 charming | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 charming | advmod |
| 23 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 saying | conj |
| 24 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 charming | obj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Graciosa | cop |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 29 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bear | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 court | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 court | det |
| 34 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 castle | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 castle | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 castle | amod |
| 38 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 court | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 off | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 off | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 off | cop |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 off | advmod |
| 43 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 off | advmod |
| 44 | off | off | ADV | _ | 38 castle | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Queen | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not bear | could | Queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | everyone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everyone=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | pretty property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past | Graciosa | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go away | past | Queen | the court to Queen's own castle | away, presently property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from court=Initial_Location | |||
| 9 | not is | past | Queen's own castle | far, off 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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