The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 26

Sigurd was greatly surprised to hear his Queen scold him so much, for she had never said an angry word to him before; but he thought it was quite excusable in this case, and tried to quiet the child along with her, but it was no use.

Who acts: Sigurd, Queen, word · What happens: be, hear, scold, not say, think, try · To what, where: Sigurd, angry word, case, child, use · 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 (Sigurd, Queen, word), 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	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 surprised	advmod
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surprised	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Queen	nmod:poss
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scold	nsubj
9	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scold	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	9 scold	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 scold	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
20	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 word	amod
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 word	nmod
24	before	before	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 excusable	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 excusable	cop
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 excusable	advmod
32	excusable	excusable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thought	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 case	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 case	det
35	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 excusable	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tried	cc
38	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thought	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 quiet	mark
40	quiet	quiet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tried	xcomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 child	det
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 quiet	obj
43	along	along	ADP	_	45 her	case
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 quiet	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 use	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 use	cc
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 use	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 use	cop
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 use	det
51	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sigurd				greatly, surprised property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	scold	present	Sigurd's Queen	Sigurd				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not say speech: assert	past · perfect	Queen	a angry word	Sigurd		before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to he=Recipient
5	think speech: other	past	Sigurd					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	word			this case	excusable property	tree rules
7	try	past	Sigurd not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	quiet not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here	the child			along Queen	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
9	is a	past	word	no use				tree rules

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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