The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 44

But by the Queen’s orders they would say nothing good of her, but declared that she was vain, capricious, and bad-tempered; that she tormented her waiting-maids, and that, in spite of all the money that the King gave her, she was so mean that she preferred to go about dressed like a poor shepherdess, rather than spend any of it.

Who acts: orders, visit, that, King, Queen · What happens: say, declare, be, temper, torment, give · To what, where: nothing, waiting maids, spite, money, visit, any · 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 (orders, visit, that, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 orders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 orders	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Queen	case
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 say	obj
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 declared	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 declared	cc
16	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 vain	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 vain	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 vain	cop
20	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 declared	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 capricious	punct
22	capricious	capricious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 vain	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tempered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tempered	cc
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tempered	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bad	punct
27	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 vain	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tormented	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 tormented	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tormented	nsubj
31	tormented	torment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 maids	nmod:poss
33	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maids	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 waiting	punct
35	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tormented	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 that	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 that	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 tormented	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 spite	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 spite	case
41	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tormented	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 money	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 money	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 money	det
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spite	nmod
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 gave	obj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 King	det
48	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 gave	nsubj
49	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 money	acl:relcl
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 gave	iobj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 mean	punct
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 mean	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 mean	aux
54	so	so	ADV	_	55 mean	advmod
55	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	conj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 preferred	mark
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 preferred	nsubj
58	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 mean	ccomp
59	to	to	PART	_	60 go	mark
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 preferred	xcomp
61	about	about	ADV	_	62 dressed	advmod
62	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 go	advcl
63	like	like	ADP	_	66 shepherdess	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 shepherdess	det
65	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 shepherdess	amod
66	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 dressed	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 spend	punct
68	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	70 spend	cc
69	than	than	ADP	_	68 rather	fixed
70	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 go	conj
71	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	70 spend	obj
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 it	case
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 any	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	orders = order	nothing			by the Queen's orders	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	declare speech: other	past	orders = order not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	visit				vain property	tree rules
4	be		visit not said here					tree rules
5	temper	participle	visit not said here					tree rules
6	torment	past	that	visit's waiting maids		spite of all money	that obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus maid=Experiencer
7	give	past	the King	all money	visit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient that=Theme
8	mean	past	visit					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	prefer	past	visit					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	go about not said to happen	to-infinitive	visit not said here					vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	dress	participle	visit not said here				like a poor shepherdess; about property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	spend	infinitive	visit not said here	any				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Asset
13	order		the Queen					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent
14	spite			all money				nom spite «feeling 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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