The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 45

And when the Princess presented the letter and the box she threw them both upon the fire without opening them, and looked very much as if she would like to throw the Princess after them.

Who acts: Princess, box · What happens: present, throw, open, look, like · To what, where: letter, shoes, fire, Princess

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 (Princess, box), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 presented	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 presented	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 presented	nsubj
5	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 presented	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 presented	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obj
14	both	both	ADV	_	12 threw	advmod
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 opening	mark
19	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 opening	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 presented	conj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	23 looked	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 like	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 like	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 looked	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 throw	mark
32	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 throw	obj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 throw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	past	the Princess	the letter				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	throw	past	the box	shoes = shoe	the fire		both property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme upon fire=Destination
3	open	gerund	the box not said here	shoes = shoe				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
4	look	past	the Princess not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	like	would	Princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	the Princess		after shoes = shoe		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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