The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 13

Then the Queen sent for the Fairy once more, and scolded her until she was fairly terrified, and promised to go home and think of another task for Graciosa, worse than either of the others.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: send, scold, be, promise, go, think · To what, where: Queen

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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2024): 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Fairy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sent	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scolded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scolded	cc
12	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scolded	obj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 terrified	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 terrified	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 terrified	cop
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	18 terrified	advmod
18	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 scolded	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promised	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 promised	cc
21	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promised	xcomp
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 think	cc
26	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 task	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 task	det
29	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 think	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 Graciosa	case
31	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 task	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 worse	punct
33	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 task	amod
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 either	case
35	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	33 worse	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 others	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 others	det
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 either	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Queen		then	for the Fairy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	scold	past	the Queen not said here	Queen			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	Queen			fairly, terrified property	tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	past	the Queen not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	infinitive	the Queen not said here			of another task for Graciosa	vn focus-87.1-1 «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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