The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 96

She had hardly got inside the door when she was seized by four waiting women, who looked so tall and strong and cruel that the Princess shuddered at the sight of them, and still more when she saw them arming themselves with great bundles of rods, and heard the Duchess call out to them from her bed to beat the Princess without mercy.

Who acts: duchess, four waiting women, Princess, women · What happens: get, seize, wait, look, shudder, see · To what, where: door, duchess, women, bed, rods, Princess · 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 (duchess, four waiting women, Princess, women), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 seized	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seized	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seized	aux:pass
11	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 got	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 women	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 women	nummod
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 women	amod
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seized	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 women	acl:relcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 tall	advmod
20	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looked	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strong	cc
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tall	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cruel	cc
24	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tall	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 shuddered	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shuddered	nsubj
28	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cruel	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 sight	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sight	det
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shuddered	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sight	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saw	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 saw	cc
36	still	still	ADV	_	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 saw	advmod
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 saw	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 saw	nsubj
40	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 saw	obj
42	arming	arm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 saw	xcomp
43	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 arming	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 bundles	case
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 bundles	amod
46	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 arming	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 rods	case
48	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 bundles	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 heard	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 heard	cc
51	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 saw	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Duchess	det
53	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 call	nsubj
54	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 heard	ccomp
55	out	out	ADP	_	54 call	compound:prt
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 them	case
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 call	obl
58	from	from	ADP	_	60 bed	case
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 bed	nmod:poss
60	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 heard	obl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 beat	mark
62	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 heard	advcl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Princess	det
64	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 beat	obj
65	without	without	ADP	_	66 mercy	case
66	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 beat	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	duchess			the door	hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	seize	past · passive	four waiting women	duchess				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	wait	gerund						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past	four waiting women				tall property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	shudder	past	the Princess				at the sight of women	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus
6	see	past	duchess	women = woman				tree rules
7	arm	gerund	women = woman not said here	women = woman			with great bundles of rods	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with bundle=Theme
8	hear	past	duchess not said here			duchess's bed		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from bed=Source clause=Topic
9	call out speech: assert	present	the Duchess		rods = rod			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
10	beat	to-infinitive	duchess not said here	the Princess			without mercy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme
11	sight			women = woman				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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