The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 11
When the wicked Queen came at sunset she was amazed and infuriated to find the task done.
Who acts: wicked Queen, task · What happens: come, amaze, infuriate, find, do · To what, where: Queen, task
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 (wicked Queen, task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2022): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sunset | case |
| 7 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 amazed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | aux:pass |
| 10 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 infuriated | cc |
| 12 | infuriated | infuriate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 amazed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 amazed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 task | det |
| 16 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 find | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wicked Queen | sunset | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | amaze | past · passive | Queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | infuriate | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the task | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent task=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | participle | the task not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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