The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 6
The Queen wondered how she dared offer herself, and she was told to go away, as she certainly would not do.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: wonder, dare, offer, tell, go away, not do · To what, where: Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dared | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dared | nsubj |
| 6 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | advcl |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dared | xcomp |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 offer | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wondered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dare | past | Queen | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offer | infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not do | would | Queen | certainly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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