The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 93

So he hastened to appease the Duchess, and told her she might punish Graciosa in any way she pleased.

Who acts: face, duchess · What happens: hasten, appease, tell, punish · To what, where: Duchess, Graciosa, way · 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 (face, duchess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 appease	mark
5	appease	appease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hastened	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Duchess	det
7	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 appease	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hastened	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 punish	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 punish	aux
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	ccomp
15	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 punish	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 punish	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pleased	nsubj
20	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hasten	past	face				tree rules
2	appease	to-infinitive	face not said here	the Duchess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duchess=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	face not said here		duchess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	punish	might	duchess	Graciosa		any way	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graciosa=Patient

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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