The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 142

The wicked Queen was standing all this time on the tower, and, hearing the bells ringing at a great distance off, knew very well it was the princes coming home, and the steed with them, and through spite and vexation precipitated herself from the tower and was shattered to pieces.

Who acts: wicked Queen, bells, distance, princes · What happens: stand, hear, ring off, know, be, come · To what, where: tower, bells, princes, Queen, spite · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wicked Queen, bells, distance, princes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Queen	amod
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hearing	punct
15	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 knew	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bells	det
17	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hearing	obj
18	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 bells	acl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 distance	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 distance	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 distance	amod
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ringing	obl
23	off	off	ADP	_	18 ringing	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hearing	punct
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 knew	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 princes	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 princes	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princes	det
31	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 knew	obl
32	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 princes	acl
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 coming	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 steed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 steed	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 steed	det
37	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 princes	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 steed	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 precipitated	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 precipitated	cc
42	through	through	ADP	_	43 spite	case
43	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 precipitated	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 vexation	cc
45	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spite	conj
46	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 princes	parataxis
47	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 precipitated	obj
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 tower	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 tower	det
50	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 precipitated	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 shattered	cc
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 shattered	aux:pass
53	shattered	shatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 precipitated	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 pieces	case
55	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 shattered	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the wicked Queen		the tower	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location
2	hear	gerund		the bells				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus
3	ring off	gerund	the bells not said here				at a great distance	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
4	know	past	the wicked Queen not said here				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is a	past	distance	the princes and the steed with Princes				tree rules
6	come	gerund	the princes and the steed with Princes not said here				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	precipitate	participle		Queen	spite and vexation		from the tower	tree rules
8	shatter	past · passive					to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to piece=Result

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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