The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 101

While she spoke the Queen and Turritella were looking at her in the greatest surprise, perfectly dazzled by her beauty and the splendour of her jewels, and the Queen said:

Who acts: ‘, Queen · What happens: speak, look, dazzle, say · To what, where: greatest surprise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looking	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Turritella	cc
7	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Queen	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	aux
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spoke	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 surprise	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 surprise	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 surprise	amod
15	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dazzled	punct
17	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	18 dazzled	advmod
18	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 surprise	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 beauty	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beauty	nmod:poss
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dazzled	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 splendour	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 splendour	det
24	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beauty	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 jewels	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 jewels	nmod:poss
27	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 splendour	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Queen	det
31	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	‘				tree rules
2	look	past · progressive	the Queen and Turritella		the greatest surprise	at ‘	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	dazzle	participle		the greatest surprise not said here		by ‘'s beauty and the splendour of ‘'s jewels; perfectly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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