The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 279
When the wicked woman heard these words she uttered a curse, and was beside herself with rage and mortification.
Who acts: wicked woman, woman · What happens: hear, utter, be · To what, where: words, curse
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 (wicked woman, woman), 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 | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 uttered | nsubj |
| 9 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 words | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 curse | det |
| 11 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uttered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 herself | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 herself | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 herself | cop |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 heard | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rage | case |
| 18 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mortification | cc |
| 20 | mortification | mortification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rage | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the wicked woman | this words | with rage and mortification | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | woman | a curse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent curse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | beside woman | 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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