The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 37
And the Queen laughed until she was tired at the idea of having outwitted the old Fairy.
Who acts: Queen, idea · What happens: laugh, be, outwit · To what, where: idea, old Fairy
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 (Queen, idea), 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 | _ | 4 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 tired | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tired | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tired | cop |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laughed | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 idea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 idea | det |
| 11 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tired | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 outwitted | mark |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 outwitted | aux |
| 14 | outwitted | outwit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 idea | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Fairy | amod |
| 17 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 outwitted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the Queen | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | the idea | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | outwit | gerund · perfect | the idea not said here | the old Fairy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fairy=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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