The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 152
The queen turned very red and hot, but couldn’t deny it.
Who acts: queen · What happens: turn, not deny · To what, where: dress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 red | advmod |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hot | cc |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 red | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deny | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 deny | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 deny | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 deny | advmod |
| 12 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 deny | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the queen | red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not deny | could | the queen not said here | dress | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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