The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 1
The Queen was more than delighted at the thought of the despair this task would cause the Princess.
Who acts: Queen, task · What happens: be, delight, cause, think · To what, where: thought, Princess, despair
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, task), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 delighted | mark |
| 6 | delighted | delight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 more | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 thought | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thought | det |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 despair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 despair | det |
| 12 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 task | det |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cause | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cause | aux |
| 16 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 despair | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cause | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | delight | participle | the Queen not said here | the thought of the despair | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cause | would | this task | the Princess | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think | the despair | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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