The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 19
The Queen was more frightened than words can describe, and could neither speak a word nor move from the place so as to awaken the King or the sailors.
Who acts: Queen, words · What happens: be, describe, speak, awaken · To what, where: word, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, words), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 describe | mark |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 describe | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 describe | aux |
| 9 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 speak | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 13 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 speak | advmod |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speak | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 move | cc |
| 18 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 word | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 move | nmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 awaken | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 awaken | mark |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 awaken | mark |
| 25 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 speak | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 awaken | obj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 sailors | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sailors | det |
| 30 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 King | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | can | words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | could | a word nor move from the place | neither property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | awaken | to-infinitive | the King or the sailors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme |
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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