The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 14

‘Alas! now we are ruined indeed, for that was no other than the Fairy Carabosse, who has had a grudge against me ever since I was a boy and put sulphur into her porridge one day for fun.’

Who acts: that, Fairy Carabosse, I · What happens: ruin, be, have, put · To what, where: we, grudge, boy, sulphur, porridge

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Fairy Carabosse, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 ruined	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	7 ruined	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ruined	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 ruined	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ruined	aux:pass
7	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 ruined	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 other	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 other	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 other	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 other	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ruined	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	18 Carabosse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Carabosse	det
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Carabosse	compound
18	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 other	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 Carabosse	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 grudge	det
24	grudge	grudge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	against	against	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 grudge	nmod
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 boy	advmod
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	32 boy	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 boy	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 boy	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 boy	det
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 had	conj
35	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 porridge	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 porridge	nmod:poss
38	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 day	nummod
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl:unmarked
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 fun	case
42	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ruined	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 ruined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	present · passive		we		now	indeed property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	that				than the Fairy Carabosse; other property	tree rules
3	have	present · perfect	the Fairy Carabosse	a grudge			against me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient
4	is a	past	I	a boy		ever		tree rules
5	put	participle	the Fairy Carabosse not said here	sulphur	Queen's porridge	day	for fun	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sulphur=Goal

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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