The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 8
The Queen, without giving her another thought, chose a pretty rosy-faced nurse, but no sooner was her choice made than a snake, which was hidden in the grass, bit that very nurse on her foot, so that she fell down as if dead.
Who acts: Queen, choice, grass · What happens: give, choose, be, make, hide, fall down · To what, where: thought, pretty faced nurse, choice, snake, grass
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, choice, grass), 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 | 10 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 giving | mark |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Queen | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nmod:poss |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thought | det |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 10 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 nurse | det |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nurse | amod |
| 13 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faced | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rosy | punct |
| 15 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nurse | amod |
| 16 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chose | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 sooner | det |
| 20 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 choice | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 choice | cop |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 choice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chose | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 snake | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 snake | det |
| 27 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hidden | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hidden | aux:pass |
| 31 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 snake | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 grass | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 grass | det |
| 34 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hidden | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bit | punct |
| 36 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grass | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 fell | nsubj |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 nurse | advmod |
| 39 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fell | nsubj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 foot | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 foot | nmod:poss |
| 42 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 nurse | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 fell | punct |
| 44 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 fell | mark |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 so | fixed |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fell | nsubj |
| 47 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 grass | acl:relcl |
| 48 | down | down | ADV | _ | 47 fell | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 dead | case |
| 50 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 51 dead | mark |
| 51 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fell | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | the Queen not said here | Queen's thought | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the Queen | a pretty faced nurse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Queen's choice | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Queen's choice | than a snake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | hide | past · passive | a snake | the grass and bit | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in grass=Location | ||||
| 6 | fall down | past | the grass and bit | as dead; down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | think | Queen | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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