The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 11
For she had no idea that the kind-looking old woman leaning on her crutch was in reality a wicked witch, who envied the Queen her good fortune, and was determined to ruin her.
Who acts: Queen, looking old woman, wicked witch · What happens: have, look, lean, be, envy, ruin · To what, where: idea, crutch, reality, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, looking old woman, wicked witch), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 had | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 idea | det |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 reality | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looking | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 woman | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reality | nsubj |
| 13 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 woman | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 crutch | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 crutch | nmod:poss |
| 16 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaning | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reality | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 reality | case |
| 19 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idea | nmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 21 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 witch | amod |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reality | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 envied | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 envied | nsubj |
| 25 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 witch | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 envied | obj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fortune | amod |
| 30 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 envied | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 determined | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 determined | cc |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 determined | cop |
| 34 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 ruin | mark |
| 36 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 determined | xcomp |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ruin | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Queen | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | the looking old woman not said here | Queen's crutch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crutch=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the looking old woman | reality | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | envy | past | a wicked witch | the Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Queen not said here | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ruin | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | Queen | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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