The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 16
The wicked Queen waited impatiently until night fell, and then she ordered her carriage to be brought.
Who acts: wicked Queen, night, Queen, carriage · What happens: wait, fall, order, bring · To what, where: carriage
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked Queen, night, Queen, carriage), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Queen | amod |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 fell | mark |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 ordered | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 brought | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the wicked Queen | impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | past | Queen | Queen's carriage | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent carriage=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Queen's carriage not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
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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