The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 9
But if anybody who went to see her happened to mention the charming Princess, she would cry angrily:
Who acts: anybody, Queen · What happens: go, see, happen, mention, cry · To what, where: Queen, charming
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 (anybody, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cry | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 happened | mark |
| 3 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 anybody | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cry | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mention | mark |
| 11 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happened | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 charming | det |
| 13 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mention | obj |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 charming | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cry | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cry | aux |
| 18 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 18 cry | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past | anybody | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | to-infinitive | anybody not said here | the charming | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent charming=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | would | Queen | angrily 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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