The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 98

But no sooner did they begin to beat her than she found, to her great relief, that the rods had changed to bundles of peacock’s feathers, and though the Duchess’s women went on till they were so tired that they could no longer raise their arms from their sides, yet she was not hurt in the least.

Who acts: women, Percinet, rods · What happens: begin, beat, find, change, go, be · To what, where: Percinet, great relief, arms, sides, least

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 (women, Percinet, rods), 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	_	6 begin	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 begin	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begin	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 begin	nsubj
6	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beat	mark
8	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begin	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beat	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beat	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 relief	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 relief	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 relief	nmod:poss
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 relief	amod
17	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 changed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rods	det
21	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 changed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 changed	aux
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 found	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 bundles	case
25	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 changed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 feathers	case
27	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feathers	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 peacock	case
29	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bundles	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 went	cc
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 went	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Duchess	det
34	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 women	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Duchess	case
36	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begin	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	43 tired	case
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 tired	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tired	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 tired	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 tired	advmod
43	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 went	obl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 raise	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 raise	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 raise	aux
47	no	no	ADV	_	48 longer	advmod
48	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 raise	advmod
49	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 tired	advcl
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 arms	nmod:poss
51	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 raise	obj
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 sides	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 sides	nmod:poss
54	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 raise	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 hurt	punct
56	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	60 hurt	cc
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 hurt	nsubj:pass
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 hurt	aux:pass
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 hurt	advmod
60	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 went	parataxis
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 least	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 least	det
63	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 hurt	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · do-support	women = woman			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beat	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here	Percinet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
3	find	past	Percinet	Percinet's great relief			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Topic
4	change	past · perfect	the rods			to bundles of peacock's feathers result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to bundle=Result
5	go	past	the Duchess's women				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	women = woman			tired property	tree rules
7	raise	could	women = woman	women's arms	women's sides	long property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme from side=Destination
8	not hurt	past · passive		Percinet	the least		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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