The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 26
At this Carabosse laughed maliciously, and climbed away up the chimney, leaving them all in great consternation, and especially the Queen.
Who acts: Carabosse · What happens: laugh, climb away, leave · To what, where: Queen, chimney, gifts, great consternation
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 (Carabosse), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Carabosse | det |
| 3 | Carabosse | Carabosse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | maliciously | maliciously | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | cc |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | parataxis |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 climbed | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 chimney | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chimney | det |
| 12 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 climbed | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leaving | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 consternation | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 consternation | amod |
| 19 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Queen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Queen | cc |
| 22 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 Queen | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | this Carabosse | the Queen | maliciously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | climb away | past | the chimney | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up chimney=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | gifts = gift | great consternation | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in consternation=Location |
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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