The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 55
At first he was very much startled by Graciosa’s sudden appearance, but she told him how the Queen had left her out in the forest, and how she had caused a log of wood to be buried.
Who acts: sudden appearance, Graciosa, Queen · What happens: startle, tell, leave out, cause, bury · To what, where: King, Graciosa, forest, log · 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 (sudden appearance, Graciosa, Queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 startled | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 startled | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 startled | advmod |
| 7 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 appearance | case |
| 9 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Graciosa | case |
| 11 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appearance | amod |
| 12 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 startled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 startled | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 left | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 told | ccomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 left | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 caused | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 caused | cc |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 caused | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 caused | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 caused | aux |
| 33 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 startled | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 log | det |
| 35 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 caused | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 wood | case |
| 37 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 log | nmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 buried | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 buried | aux:pass |
| 40 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 caused | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | Graciosa's sudden appearance | King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Graciosa | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave out | past · perfect | the Queen | Graciosa | the forest | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | cause | past · perfect | Graciosa | a log of wood | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition log=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bury | to-infinitive · passive | Graciosa not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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