The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 75
The Queen was terrified at such an evil omen, and tried to pull the black scarf from the Princess’s shoulders, but it really seemed as if it must be nailed on, it clung so closely.
Who acts: Queen, it, scarf · What happens: be, try, pull, seem, nail on, cling · To what, where: evil omen, black scarf, shoulders, scarf
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, it, scarf), 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 | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 omen | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 omen | det:predet |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 omen | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 omen | amod |
| 9 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pull | mark |
| 14 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scarf | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scarf | amod |
| 17 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pull | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pull | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seemed | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 seemed | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seemed | nsubj |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 seemed | advmod |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | parataxis |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 nailed | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 nailed | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 nailed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 nailed | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 nailed | aux:pass |
| 33 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 seemed | xcomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 nailed | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 clung | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 clung | nsubj |
| 37 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 closely | advmod |
| 39 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 37 clung | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | such evil omen | terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | the Queen not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pull not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | the black scarf | the Princess's shoulders | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | nail on a condition, not said to happen | must · passive | scarf | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | cling | past | scarf | closely property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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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