The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 12
And so, in all ignorance, the Queen followed her out into the garden and listened to her smooth, flattering words.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: follow out, listen, flatter, word · To what, where: witch, ignorance
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 followed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignorance | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ignorance | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ignorance | det |
| 6 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignorance | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 followed | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 listened | cc |
| 17 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 words | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 words | nmod:poss |
| 20 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 words | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flattering | punct |
| 22 | flattering | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 words | amod |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 listened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow out | past | the Queen | witch | all ignorance | into the garden | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in ignorance=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | listen | past | the Queen not said here | to Queen's smooth flattering words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flatter | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | word | Queen | nom word «communication transitive»: 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 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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