The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 48

But, in spite of all he could say, she bade farewell to the Queen, his mother, and prepared to set out; so Percinet, very unwillingly, brought the little sledge with the stags and she mounted beside him.

Who acts: spite, Percinet · What happens: say, set out, bring, mount · To what, where: she bade, little sledge · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (spite, Percinet), 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	_	9 say	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 spite	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bade	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bade	compound
12	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
13	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Queen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 farewell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mother	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prepared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 prepared	cc
22	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 set	mark
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 prepared	xcomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 brought	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
28	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 brought	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unwillingly	punct
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 unwillingly	advmod
31	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unwillingly	punct
33	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sledge	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sledge	amod
36	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 stags	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stags	det
39	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 brought	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mounted	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 mounted	nsubj
42	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 brought	conj
43	beside	beside	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 mounted	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	spite of all	she bade	farewell property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bade=Topic
2	set out	to-infinitive	spite of all not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past	Percinet	the little sledge	with the stags; unwillingly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
4	mount	past	Percinet		beside spite	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination

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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