The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 12
However, she complained that the heaps of feathers were badly arranged, and for that the Princess was beaten and sent back to her garret.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: complain, arrange, beat, send back · To what, where: heaps, Princess, garret · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 complained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 complained | nsubj |
| 4 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 arranged | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heaps | det |
| 7 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heaps | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arranged | aux:pass |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 arranged | advmod |
| 12 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 complained | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beaten | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beaten | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 beaten | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 beaten | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beaten | aux:pass |
| 20 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 complained | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 beaten | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 sent | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 garret | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 garret | nmod:poss |
| 26 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Queen | however property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | arrange | past · passive | the heaps of feathers | badly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | beat | past · passive | the Princess | for that | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send back | participle | Queen's garret | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to garret=Destination |
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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