The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 183
When the Queen heard these words she was nearly struck dumb with horror, for the mirror always spoke the truth, and she knew now that the Huntsman must have deceived her, and that Snowdrop was still alive.
Who acts: Queen, mirror, Huntsman, Snowdrop · What happens: hear, strike, speak, know, deceive, be · To what, where: words, Queen, truth · 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, mirror, Huntsman, Snowdrop), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 struck | aux:pass |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 struck | advmod |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 struck | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horror | case |
| 13 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dumb | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mirror | det |
| 17 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 spoke | advmod |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 knew | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 deceived | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Huntsman | det |
| 29 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 deceived | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 deceived | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 deceived | aux |
| 32 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 knew | advcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 deceived | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 alive | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 alive | cc |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 alive | mark |
| 37 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 alive | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 alive | cop |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 alive | advmod |
| 40 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Queen | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | Queen | dumb, nearly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the mirror | the truth | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | past | Queen | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | deceive | must · perfect | the Huntsman | Queen | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Snowdrop | still | alive property | tree rules |
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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