The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 11

The queen received the letter, read it, and wept bitterly as she said to herself, ‘How can I deliver my dearest husband?

Who acts: queen, I · What happens: receive, read, weep, say, deliver · To what, where: letter, queen, dearest husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, I), 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 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 letter	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 read	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wept	cc
11	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
12	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	11 wept	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wept	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deliver	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 deliver	punct
20	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 deliver	advmod
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 deliver	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 deliver	nsubj
23	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 husband	nmod:poss
25	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 husband	amod
26	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deliver	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the queen	the letter			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	read	infinitive		letter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	weep	past	the queen not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	queen		queen		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	deliver	can	I	my dearest husband			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient

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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