The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 9
The Queen was very much vexed by this accident, but she soon selected another, who was just stepping forward when an eagle flew by and dropped a large tortoise upon her head, which was cracked in pieces like an egg-shell.
Who acts: accident, Queen, eagle · What happens: vex, select, step forward, fly by, drop, crack · To what, where: Queen, another, large tortoise, head, pieces
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 (accident, Queen, eagle), 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 | 6 vexed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 vexed | advmod |
| 6 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 accident | det |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vexed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 selected | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 selected | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 selected | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 selected | advmod |
| 14 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | conj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 selected | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stepping | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 stepping | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stepping | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 stepping | advmod |
| 20 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 selected | advcl |
| 21 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 20 stepping | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 flew | mark |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eagle | det |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stepping | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 flew | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dropped | cc |
| 28 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flew | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tortoise | det |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tortoise | amod |
| 31 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dropped | obj |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tortoise | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cracked | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 cracked | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 cracked | aux:pass |
| 38 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 tortoise | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 pieces | case |
| 40 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cracked | obl |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 shell | case |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 shell | det |
| 43 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 shell | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 egg | punct |
| 45 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pieces | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | this accident | the Queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | select | past | Queen | another | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | |||
| 3 | step forward | past · progressive | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly by | past | a eagle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drop | past | a eagle not said here | a large tortoise | Queen's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 6 | crack | past · passive | a large tortoise | pieces like a egg shell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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