The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 94
Thereupon she sent for Graciosa, who turned pale and trembled at the summons, for she guessed that it promised nothing agreeable for her.
Who acts: duchess, Graciosa, way · What happens: send, turn, tremble, guess, promise · To what, where: summons, nothing
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 (duchess, Graciosa, way), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Graciosa | case |
| 5 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Graciosa | acl:relcl |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turned | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembled | cc |
| 11 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 summons | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 summons | det |
| 14 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trembled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 guessed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 guessed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 guessed | nsubj |
| 18 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 promised | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 promised | nsubj |
| 21 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 guessed | advcl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 promised | obj |
| 23 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nothing | amod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 agreeable | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | duchess | for Graciosa; thereupon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Graciosa | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | participle | Graciosa not said here | the summons | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at summon=Location | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | duchess | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | way | nothing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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