The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 81

The Princess obeyed in silence, and the Duchess, without looking at her or thanking her, scrambled up upon the beautiful horse, where she sat looking like a bundle of clothes, and eight officers had to hold her up for fear she should fall off.

Who acts: Princess, duchess, eight officers · What happens: obey, look, thank, scramble up, sit, have · To what, where: Duchess, silence, fear

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 (Princess, duchess, eight officers), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 silence	case
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Duchess	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Duchess	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Duchess	det
9	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 looking	mark
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 obeyed	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looking	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 thanking	cc
16	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 looking	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thanking	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scrambled	punct
19	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 scrambled	compound:prt
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 horse	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 horse	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 horse	amod
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scrambled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sat	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 scrambled	conj
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 sat	advcl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 bundle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bundle	det
32	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looking	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 clothes	case
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 bundle	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 had	cc
37	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 officers	nummod
38	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 hold	mark
41	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hold	obj
43	up	up	ADP	_	41 hold	compound:prt
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 fear	case
45	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hold	obl
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fall	nsubj
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 fall	aux
48	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 fear	acl:relcl
49	off	off	ADP	_	48 fall	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the Princess	the Duchess		silence		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	the Princess not said here				at duchess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	gerund	the Princess not said here		duchess			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	scramble up	past					upon the beautiful horse	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon horse=Trajectory
5	sit	past	duchess					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	gerund	duchess not said here				like a bundle of clothes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	have	past	eight officers					tree rules
8	hold up	to-infinitive	eight officers not said here	duchess			for fear	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
9	fall off	should	duchess	fear not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient fear=Extent

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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