The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 33
The Queen immediately took the cards, and, after returning the hen-wife thanks for her kind instruction, went back to the palace, where she was quite uneasy until she got speaking to the King in regard of his children; at last she broke it off to him in a very polite and engaging manner, so that he could see no muster or design in it.
Who acts: Queen, bargain · What happens: take, return, go back, be, get, speak · To what, where: cards, wife thanks, regard, thanks, bargain, last · 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 (Queen, bargain), 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 | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cards | det |
| 6 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 returning | mark |
| 11 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thanks | det |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hen | punct |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | compound |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returning | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 instruction | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 instruction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 instruction | amod |
| 20 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returning | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 uneasy | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 uneasy | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 uneasy | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 uneasy | cop |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 uneasy | advmod |
| 32 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 went | conj |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 got | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 got | nsubj |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 uneasy | advcl |
| 36 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 got | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 King | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 speaking | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 regard | case |
| 41 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 speaking | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 children | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 children | nmod:poss |
| 44 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 regard | nmod |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 broke | punct |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 last | case |
| 47 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 broke | obl |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 broke | nsubj |
| 49 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 broke | obj |
| 51 | off | off | ADP | _ | 49 broke | compound:prt |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 broke | obl |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 polite | case |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 polite | det |
| 56 | very | very | ADV | _ | 57 polite | advmod |
| 57 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 broke | obl |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 engaging | cc |
| 59 | engaging | engage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 polite | conj |
| 60 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 engaging | obj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 see | punct |
| 62 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 66 see | mark |
| 63 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 so | fixed |
| 64 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 see | nsubj |
| 65 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 see | aux |
| 66 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 broke | conj |
| 67 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 68 muster | det |
| 68 | muster | muster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 see | obj |
| 69 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 70 design | cc |
| 70 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 muster | conj |
| 71 | in | in | ADP | _ | 72 it | case |
| 72 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 see | obl |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Queen | the cards | immediately property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | gerund | the wife thanks | for Queen's kind instruction | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | the Queen not said here | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Queen | uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | past | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | gerund | Queen not said here | regard of bargain's children | to the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | break off | past | Queen | thanks | bargain | last | in a polite | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to he=Result | |
| 8 | engage | gerund | Queen not said here | manner | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Patient | ||||
| 9 | see | could | bargain | no muster or design | design | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muster=Stimulus | |||
| 10 | instruct | Queen | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | regard | bargain's children | nom regard «cognition transitive»: of=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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