The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 111

But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters to prove that the Princess had been conspiring with the King’s enemies, and she chose the chimney as a good place.

Who acts: Queen, Princess · What happens: resolve, hide, prove, conspire, choose · To what, where: packet, chimney

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, Princess), 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	_	4 resolved	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 resolved	nsubj
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	xcomp
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 hide	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 packet	det
9	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 letters	case
11	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 letters	amod
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 packet	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prove	mark
14	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hide	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 conspiring	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 conspiring	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 conspiring	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 conspiring	aux
20	conspiring	conspire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 prove	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 enemies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 enemies	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 King	case
25	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 conspiring	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 chose	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 chose	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chose	nsubj
29	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chimney	det
31	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chose	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 place	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 place	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chose	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the Queen			tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	a packet of false letters	somewhere property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Patient
3	prove	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	conspire	past · perfect · progressive	the Princess		with the King's enemies	vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-Agent
5	choose	past	Queen	the chimney	as a good place	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Theme

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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