The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 19

But scarcely had her tender feet touched the cool ripples when she felt a great shove on her shoulders, and the wicked witch had pushed her into the deep water, exclaiming:

Who acts: tender feet, Queen · What happens: have, touch, feel, push, exclaim · To what, where: cool ripples, great shove, shoulders, wicked witch, deep water

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 (tender feet, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
5	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feet	compound
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touched	nsubj
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ripples	det
9	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ripples	amod
10	ripples	ripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touched	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 felt	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shove	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shove	amod
16	shove	shove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felt	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulders	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulders	nmod:poss
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 felt	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pushed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pushed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 witch	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 witch	amod
24	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushed	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pushed	aux
26	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 touched	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushed	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
30	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 exclaiming	punct
33	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 pushed	advcl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Queen's tender feet not said here			scarcely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	touch	past	Queen's tender feet	the cool ripples			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ripple=Co-Theme
3	feel	past	Queen	a great shove	Queen's shoulders		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shove=Theme on shoulder=Location
4	push	past · perfect · passive		the wicked witch	the deep water		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination
5	exclaim speech: express	gerund					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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