The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 7
Upon which she muttered something and passed on, but hid herself in a hollow tree, from which she could see all that happened.
Who acts: Queen, that · What happens: mutter, pass on, hide, see, happen · To what, where: something, Queen, hollow tree · 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, that), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 muttered | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 muttered | nsubj |
| 4 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 muttered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 muttered | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 passed | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hid | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hid | cc |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 muttered | parataxis |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hid | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 see | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hid | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 happened | det:predet |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | Queen | something | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass on | participle | Queen not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | Queen | a hollow tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | could | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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