The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 63
Meanwhile the Queen had sent for an old Fairy, as malicious as herself, and said to her:
Who acts: Queen · What happens: send, say · To what, where: Queen · 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 (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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 Queen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Fairy | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Fairy | amod |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 malicious | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 malicious | case |
| 12 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sent | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 malicious | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect | the Queen | for a old Fairy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen not said here | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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