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The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 36

The Queen, more jealous with them than ever, thought it an age until all the feasting and rejoicing was over, that she might get making her proposal, depending greatly on the power of the hen-wife’s cards.

Who acts: Queen, feasting · What happens: think, be, get, make, depend, propose · To what, where: esteem, proposal

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, feasting), 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

detnsubjpunctadvmodamodcaseoblcaseoblpunctobjdetxcompmarkdet:predetdetnsubjccconjcopccomppunctmarknsubjauxconjxcompnmod:possobjpunctadvcladvmodcasedetoblcasedetcompoundpunctnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootTheDETQueenPROPN,PUNCTmoreADVjealousADJwithADPthemPRONthanADPeverADV,PUNCTthoughtVERBitPRONanDETageNOUNuntilSCONJallDETtheDETfeastingNOUNandCCONJrejoicingNOUNwasAUXoverADV,PUNCTthatSCONJshePRONmightAUXgetVERBmakingVERBherPRONproposalNOUN,PUNCTdependingVERBgreatlyADVonADPtheDETpowerNOUNofADPtheDEThenNOUN-PUNCTwifeNOUN’sPARTcardsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Queendet
2QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing11 thoughtnsubj
3,,PUNCT_5 jealouspunct
4moremoreADVDegree=Cmp5 jealousadvmod
5jealousjealousADJDegree=Pos2 Queenamod
6withwithADP_7 themcase
7themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 jealousobl
8thanthanADP_9 evercase
9evereverADVPronType=Ind5 jealousobl
10,,PUNCT_2 Queenpunct
11thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 thoughtobj
13anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 agedet
14ageageNOUNNumber=Sing11 thoughtxcomp
15untiluntilSCONJ_22 overmark
16allallDETPronType=Tot18 feastingdet:predet
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 feastingdet
18feastingfeastingNOUNNumber=Sing22 overnsubj
19andandCCONJ_20 rejoicingcc
20rejoicingrejoicingNOUNNumber=Sing18 feastingconj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 overcop
22overoverADV_11 thoughtccomp
23,,PUNCT_27 getpunct
24thatthatSCONJ_27 getmark
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 getnsubj
26mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin27 getaux
27getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf11 thoughtconj
28makingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger27 getxcomp
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 proposalnmod:poss
30proposalproposalNOUNNumber=Sing28 makingobj
31,,PUNCT_32 dependingpunct
32dependingdependVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part28 makingadvcl
33greatlygreatlyADV_32 dependingadvmod
34ononADP_36 powercase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 powerdet
36powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing32 dependingobl
37ofofADP_43 cardscase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 wifedet
39henhenNOUNNumber=Sing41 wifecompound
40--PUNCT_39 henpunct
41wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing43 cardsnmod:poss
42’s'sPART_41 wifecase
43cardscardNOUNNumber=Plur36 powernmod
44..PUNCT_11 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastthe Queenesteemvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2ispastall feasting and rejoicingover propertytree rules
3getmightQueenvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4makegerundQueen not said hereQueen's proposalvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proposal=Product
5dependgerundQueen not said hereon the power of the hen wife's cards; greatly propertyvn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on power=Theme
6proposeQueennom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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