The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 54

Then the Queen was very angry, and gave the nurse, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid such a scolding that they shook in their shoes.

Who acts: Queen, nursery maid, Mayblossom · What happens: be, give, scolding, shake · To what, where: nurse, shoes

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, nursery maid, Mayblossom), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nurse	det
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rocker	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rocker	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rocker	det
15	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rocker	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cradle	punct
17	rocker	rocker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scolding	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scolding	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maid	det
21	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maid	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 nursery	punct
23	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scolding	nsubj
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 scolding	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 scolding	det
26	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 shook	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shook	nsubj
29	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 scolding	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 shoes	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoes	nmod:poss
32	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shook	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			then	angry property	tree rules
2	give	past	the Queen not said here	the nurse			the cradle rocker obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme
3	scolding		the nursery maid					tree rules
4	shake	past	Mayblossom		Mayblossom's shoes			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location

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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