The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 34
She gave a shriek of alarm and fainted away, and they had to pour two barrels of eau-de-cologne over her before she recovered.
Who acts: Queen, keys · What happens: give, faint away, have, pour, recover, shriek · To what, where: shriek, two barrels, alarm
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, keys), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shriek | det |
| 4 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 alarm | case |
| 6 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shriek | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fainted | cc |
| 8 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 fainted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pour | mark |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 barrels | nummod |
| 17 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pour | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cologne | case |
| 19 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cologne | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 eau | punct |
| 21 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cologne | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 cologne | punct |
| 23 | cologne | cologne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 barrels | nmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pour | obj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 recovered | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 recovered | nsubj |
| 28 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pour | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Queen | a shriek of alarm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | faint away | past | Queen not said here | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | keys = key | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pour | to-infinitive | keys = key not said here | two barrels of eau de cologne | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme her=Destination | ||||
| 5 | recover | past | Queen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | shriek | alarm | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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