The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 44
When the Queen saw her returning she fell upon the Fairy, whom she had kept with her, and pulled her hair, and scratched her face, and would really have killed her if a Fairy could be killed.
Who acts: Queen, Princess · What happens: see, return, fall, keep, pull, scratch · To what, where: Princess, Fairy, hair, face, 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, Princess), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returning | ccomp |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Fairy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fairy | det |
| 11 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 kept | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kept | aux |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulled | cc |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 scratched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 scratched | cc |
| 26 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 scratched | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 killed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 killed | cc |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 killed | aux |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 34 killed | advmod |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 killed | aux |
| 34 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 killed | obj |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 killed | mark |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 Fairy | det |
| 38 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 killed | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 killed | aux:pass |
| 41 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 killed | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Queen | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | Princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Queen | upon the Fairy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon fairy=Location | ||||
| 4 | keep | past · perfect | Queen | the Fairy | with Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||
| 5 | pull | past | Queen's hair | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||||
| 6 | scratch | past | the Queen not said here | Queen's face | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 7 | kill | would · perfect | the Queen not said here | Queen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | kill a condition, not said to happen | could · passive | a Fairy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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