The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 15

Indeed, when the Queen saw how ill-tempered and ugly she appeared beside Fiordelisa she was in despair, and did everything in her power to turn the King against his own daughter, in the hope that he might take a fancy to Turritella.

Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: see, temper, appear, be, turn, take · To what, where: Fiordelisa, despair, King, hope, fancy, Turritella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Queen, King), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 turn	advcl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ill	advmod
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tempered	advcl
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ill	punct
10	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saw	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ugly	cc
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tempered	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appeared	nsubj
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	advcl
15	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 Fiordelisa	case
16	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 despair	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 despair	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 despair	case
20	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 turn	aux
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 did	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 power	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 power	nmod:poss
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 did	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 turn	mark
29	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 turn	obj
32	against	against	ADP	_	35 daughter	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 daughter	amod
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turn	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hope	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hope	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hope	det
39	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turn	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 take	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 take	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 take	aux
43	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hope	acl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fancy	det
45	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 take	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Turritella	case
47	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 take	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Queen				indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	temper	participle						tree rules
3	appear	past	Queen			Fiordelisa		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside fiordelisa=Location
4	is	past	Queen			despair		tree rules
5	turn	past · do-support		the King		the hope	against King's own daughter	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme against daughter=Source in hope=Trajectory
6	take	might	King	a fancy	Turritella			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to turritella=Destination

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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