The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 57
Yes! there was no mistaking it, and the Queen and Percinet were coming to meet her.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: mistake, come, meet · To what, where: avenue, 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.
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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 mistaking | det |
| 6 | mistaking | mistake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 was | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mistaking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 coming | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Percinet | cc |
| 13 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Queen | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 coming | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mistake | gerund | the Queen and Percinet not said here | avenue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the Queen and Percinet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the Queen and Percinet not said here | Queen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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