The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 15

The Queen, greatly incensed at such a daring insult from one of her meanest subjects, demanded immediately the reason, or she would have her put to death.

Who acts: Queen, meanest subjects, conference · What happens: incense, demand, have, put · To what, where: daring insult, reason, conference

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 (Queen, meanest subjects, conference), 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	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 incensed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 incensed	advmod
5	incensed	incense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 insult	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 insult	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insult	det
9	daring	daring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 insult	compound
10	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 incensed	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 incensed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 subjects	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 subjects	nmod:poss
15	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 subjects	amod
16	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 demanded	punct
18	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 subjects	acl
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 reason	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 demanded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 incensed	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 have	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 incensed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	incense	participle	the Queen		such daring insult	from one of Queen's meanest subjects; greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	demand speech: request	participle	Queen's meanest subjects not said here	the reason			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	have	would	Queen	conference			tree rules
4	put	participle	conference not said here			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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