The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 4

Now, the foolish Queen had one little son who was just going to be christened, and for several months she had been hard at work preparing an enormous list of the names of those who were to be invited, but she quite forgot that it would take nearly as long to read it over as it had taken to write it out.

Who acts: foolish Queen, one little son, Queen, work, it · What happens: have, go, christen, be, prepare, invite · To what, where: one little son, several months, work, enormous list, list, it

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish Queen, one little son, Queen, work), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
4	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Queen	amod
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 son	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 son	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 christened	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 christened	aux:pass
16	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 going	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 months	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 months	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 months	case
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 months	amod
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 work	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 work	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 work	cop
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 work	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 work	case
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 months	acl:relcl
28	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 work	acl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 list	det
30	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 list	amod
31	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 preparing	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 names	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 names	det
34	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 list	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 those	case
36	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 names	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 invited	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 invited	aux:pass
39	to	to	PART	_	41 invited	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 invited	aux:pass
41	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 those	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 forgot	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 forgot	cc
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 forgot	nsubj
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 forgot	advmod
46	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 work	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 take	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 take	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 take	aux
50	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 forgot	xcomp
51	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	53 long	advmod
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 long	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 take	advmod
54	to	to	PART	_	55 read	mark
55	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 take	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 read	obj
57	over	over	ADP	_	55 read	compound:prt
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 taken	mark
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 taken	nsubj:pass
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 taken	aux
61	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 read	advcl
62	to	to	PART	_	63 write	mark
63	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 taken	advcl
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 write	obj
65	out	out	ADP	_	63 write	compound:prt
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the foolish Queen	one little son		now; month		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	go	past · progressive	one little son					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	christen	to-infinitive · passive	one little son not said here					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»
4	is	past · perfect	Queen	several months not said here	work		hard property	tree rules
5	prepare	gerund	work not said here	a enormous list of the names of those				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Patient
6	invite	past · passive	work not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
7	forget	past	Queen					tree rules
8	not take	would	it				long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	read over	to-infinitive		list				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
10	take	past · perfect · passive		it				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
11	write out	to-infinitive		list				vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
12	list			the names of those				nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient
13	name			those				nom name «communication transitive»: of=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 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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