The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 119
At last she could endure Snowdrop’s presence no longer, and, calling a huntsman to her, she said:
Who acts: Queen · What happens: endure, call, say · To what, where: presence, last, huntsman, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 endure | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 endure | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 endure | aux |
| 5 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | parataxis |
| 6 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Snowdrop | case |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 endure | obj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 endure | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 calling | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calling | punct |
| 14 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 endure | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 huntsman | det |
| 16 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calling | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 calling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | could | Queen | Snowdrop's presence | last | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Circumstance | ||
| 2 | call | gerund | Queen not said here | a huntsman | Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent huntsman=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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