The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 58

But someone had by this time told the wicked Queen that Graciosa had come back, and was at supper with the King, and in she flew in a terrible fury.

Who acts: someone, time, Graciosa · What happens: have, tell, come back, be, fly · To what, where: wicked Queen, supper, terrible fury · 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 (someone, time, Graciosa), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Queen	amod
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
12	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 supper	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 supper	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 supper	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 supper	case
20	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 King	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 supper	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 flew	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flew	nsubj
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 fury	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fury	det
31	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fury	amod
32	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	someone				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	this time	the wicked Queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come back	past · perfect	Graciosa				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	someone not said here		supper	with the King	tree rules
5	fly	past	Graciosa		a terrible fury		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in fury=Location

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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