The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 68
This was hard to listen to, and she went and cried and vexed herself.
Who acts: This, queen · What happens: be, listen, go, cry, vex · To what, where: queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, queen), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 listen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vexed | cc |
| 14 | vexed | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 vexed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vex | past | queen not said here | queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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