The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7, sentence 23
Then the Queen looked at her, and said to herself: She says well, and I must indeed send her away without losing a moment.
Who acts: Queen, I · What happens: look, say, send away, lose · To what, where: opportunity, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 7. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 says | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 send | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 send | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 send | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 send | aux |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 send | advmod |
| 21 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 send | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 send | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 25 losing | mark |
| 25 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 send | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 moment | det |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 losing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Queen | then | at opportunity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen not said here | opportunity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Queen | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | send away | must | I | Queen | away, indeed property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | lose | gerund | I not said here | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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