The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 8

As to the Queen, she was so furiously angry that she could hardly speak; but she soon recovered her voice, and overwhelmed Graciosa with a torrent of reproaches.

Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: be, speak, recover, overwhelm · To what, where: voice, Graciosa · 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 (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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Queen	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 angry	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Queen	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 angry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
9	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 speak	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 speak	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 speak	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 speak	advmod
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 angry	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 recovered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 recovered	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 recovered	nsubj
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 recovered	advmod
20	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 angry	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recovered	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 overwhelmed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 overwhelmed	cc
25	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 recovered	conj
26	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 overwhelmed	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 torrent	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 torrent	det
29	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 overwhelmed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 reproaches	case
31	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torrent	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Graciosa		as the Queen; angry, furiously property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	could	Graciosa		hardly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	recover	past	Graciosa	Graciosa's voice	soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
4	overwhelm	past	Graciosa not said here	Graciosa	with a torrent of reproaches	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus graciosa=Experiencer

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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