The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 15

At these words the queen became scarlet, and tried to draw away her hand, but the old woman said:

Who acts: queen, old woman · What happens: become, try, draw away, say · To what, where: scarlet, words, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, old woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 became	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tried	cc
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 draw	mark
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 draw	advmod
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 draw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the queen	scarlet	this words		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	try	past	the queen not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	draw away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	queen's hand		away property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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