The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 50

The Mayoress, a long thin stick of a woman, enraged at the insult done to her husband, seized his free arm and tore at it with all her might, with the only result that she too was forced to swell the procession.

Who acts: Mayoress, only result · What happens: enrage, do, seize, force, swell · To what, where: insult, free arm, tore, Mayoress, procession

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayoress, only result), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mayoress	det
2	Mayoress	Mayoress	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seized	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stick	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mayoress	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 woman	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enraged	punct
12	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stick	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 insult	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 insult	det
15	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enraged	obl
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 insult	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mayoress	punct
21	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arm	nmod:poss
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 arm	amod
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seized	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tore	cc
26	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arm	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seized	obl
29	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 might	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 might	det:predet
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 might	nmod:poss
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 seized	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 result	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 result	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 result	det
36	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 result	amod
37	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seized	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 forced	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 forced	nsubj:pass
40	too	too	ADV	_	42 forced	advmod
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 forced	aux:pass
42	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 result	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 swell	mark
44	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 forced	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 procession	det
46	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 swell	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enrage	participle	the Mayoress not said here		the insult		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	participle		the insult not said here		to Mayoress's husband	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seize	past	the Mayoress	husband's free arm and tore	tore		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	force	past · passive	the only result not said here	Mayoress			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	swell	to-infinitive	Mayoress not said here	the procession			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient procession=Extent

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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