The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 14

At length the Queen, having some business with the hen-wife, went herself to her, and, after a long conference passed, was taking leave of her, when the hen-wife prayed that if ever she should come back to her again she might break her neck.

Who acts: length, long conference, hen wife, wife · What happens: have, go, pass, take, pray, come back · To what, where: business, Queen, length, long conference, leave, neck

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, long conference, hen wife, wife), 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 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 length	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 having	punct
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 length	acl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 business	det
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 wife	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hen	punct
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 having	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 went	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taking	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 conference	punct
22	after	after	ADP	_	25 conference	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 conference	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 conference	amod
25	conference	conference	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taking	nsubj
26	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 conference	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 passed	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taking	aux
29	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 went	advcl
30	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taking	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 leave	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 prayed	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 prayed	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wife	det
36	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wife	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 hen	punct
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 prayed	nsubj
39	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 break	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 come	mark
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 ever	mark
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 come	advmod
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 prayed	ccomp
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	obl
49	again	again	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 break	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 break	aux
52	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 taking	conj
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 neck	nmod:poss
54	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 break	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	length not said here	some business				with the hen wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
2	go	past		Queen	Queen	length			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	pass	participle		a long conference not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past · progressive	a long conference	leave of Queen					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
5	pray	past	the hen wife						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	come back	should	wife		Queen		ever; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
7	break	might	wife	Queen's neck					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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