The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 128

Naturally a great scramble ensued, and at last the laughter and shouting awoke the Queen, who rang for her maids to ask the reason of such an unwonted hurry-burly.

Who acts: great scramble, Queen · What happens: ensue, awake, ring, ask · To what, where: great scramble, reason

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great scramble, 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	Naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 scramble	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scramble	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scramble	amod
4	scramble	scramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awoke	nsubj
5	ensued	ensue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scramble	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laughter	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughter	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laughter	amod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 laughter	det
11	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awoke	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouting	cc
13	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughter	conj
14	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rang	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rang	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rang	nsubj
19	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 awoke	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 maids	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 maids	nmod:poss
22	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rang	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rang	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reason	det
26	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 burly	mark
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 burly	det:predet
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 burly	det
30	unwonted	unwonted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 burly	nsubj
31	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burly	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 hurry	punct
33	burly	burly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reason	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ensue	participle		a great scramble not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	awake	past	a great scramble			tree rules
3	ring	past	the Queen		for Queen's maids	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	the reason		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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