The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 60
So the Queen in great triumph sent for her waiting women, who dragged the unhappy Princess away and shut her up in a garret; they took away all her jewels and her pretty dress, and gave her a rough cotton frock, wooden shoes, and a little cloth cap.
Who acts: Queen, women · What happens: send, wait, drag, shut up, take away, give · To what, where: women, unhappy Princess, Princess, garret, jewels, rough cotton frock
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 (Queen, women), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 triumph | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 triumph | amod |
| 6 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | nmod |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | mark |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 waiting | nsubj |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sent | advcl |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waiting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragged | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dragged | nsubj |
| 14 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 women | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 16 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Princess | amod |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 dragged | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shut | cc |
| 20 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shut | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 shut | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garret | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 garret | det |
| 25 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 took | advmod |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 jewels | advmod |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 32 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 took | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dress | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 dress | nmod:poss |
| 35 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dress | amod |
| 36 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 jewels | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gave | cc |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 gave | iobj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 frock | det |
| 42 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 frock | amod |
| 43 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 frock | compound |
| 44 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 shoes | punct |
| 46 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 shoes | amod |
| 47 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 frock | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 cap | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 cap | cc |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 cap | det |
| 51 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 cap | amod |
| 52 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 cap | compound |
| 53 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Queen in great triumph | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Queen | women | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | women | the unhappy Princess | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 4 | shut up | past | the Queen in great triumph not said here | Princess | a garret | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 5 | take away | past | women = woman | Queen's jewels and Queen's pretty dress | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 6 | give | past | women = woman not said here | a rough cotton frock | Princess | a little cloth cap obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient frock=Theme |
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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