The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 66

Her mother was still more angry because she had not been told sooner, ran into her daughter’s room where the crab-shell was still lying, took it up and threw it into the fire.

Who acts: mother, crab shell · What happens: be, not tell, run, lie, take up, throw · To what, where: mother, room, shell, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, crab shell), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 told	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 angry	advcl
13	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 told	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
16	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 daughter	nmod:poss
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 daughter	case
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 lying	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shell	det
23	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shell	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 crab	punct
25	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lying	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lying	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 lying	advmod
28	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 room	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 took	compound:prt
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 threw	cc
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 threw	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 fire	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fire	det
38	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Princess's mother		still	angry property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		mother		soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	run	past				into Princess's daughter's room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
4	lie	past · progressive	the crab shell		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take up	past		shell			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	throw	past		shell		into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result

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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