The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 34
Here the King and Queen were waiting, and they received the Princess with such joy and kindness that she could not get a word in edgewise, to say how sorry she was for having run away with such a very poor spirited Ambassador.
Who acts: King, salutes, Queen · What happens: wait, receive, not get, say, have, run away · To what, where: Princess, word, edgewise, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, salutes, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 King | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | aux |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 received | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kindness | cc |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 joy | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 get | advmod |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 kindness | acl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 edgewise | case |
| 27 | edgewise | edgewise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 word | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 say | mark |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | parataxis |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 sorry | advmod |
| 32 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 say | obj |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 having | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 having | aux |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 having | mark |
| 36 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 sorry | parataxis |
| 37 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 having | xcomp |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 run | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 Ambassador | case |
| 40 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 Ambassador | det:predet |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 Ambassador | det |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 poor | advmod |
| 43 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Ambassador | amod |
| 44 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Ambassador | amod |
| 45 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 run | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | the King and Queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | salutes = salute | the Princess | with such joy and kindness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 3 | not get | could | Queen | a word | edgewise | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | past · progressive | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run away | participle | Queen not said here | with such poor spirited Ambassador; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with ambassador=Material |
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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