The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 53

She was so terrified that she fell upon her knees before him and confessed that her two children had come in just before he arrived, and had so teased her for some of the dish she was preparing that she had presently given the head to one and the heart to the other, since these morsels are not generally much esteemed; and Badi-al-Zaman rushed from the cottage vowing vengeance against the whole family.

Who acts: wife, two children, Fowler, Badi · What happens: be, fall, confess, come, arrive, tease · To what, where: knees, wife, dish, head, one, morsels

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, two children, Fowler, Badi), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 terrified	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 terrified	advmod
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fell	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	advcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 knees	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knees	nmod:poss
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 confessed	cc
14	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 children	nummod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 confessed	ccomp
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 arrived	mark
22	just	just	ADV	_	25 arrived	advmod
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	25 arrived	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 arrived	nsubj
25	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 teased	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 teased	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 teased	aux
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 teased	advmod
30	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 terrified	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 teased	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 some	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 teased	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 dish	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dish	det
36	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 some	nmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 preparing	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 preparing	aux
39	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 dish	acl:relcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 given	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 given	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 given	aux
43	presently	presently	ADV	_	44 given	advmod
44	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 preparing	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 head	det
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 given	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 one	case
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 given	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 heart	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 heart	det
51	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 one	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 other	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 other	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 heart	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 esteemed	punct
56	since	since	SCONJ	_	63 esteemed	mark
57	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	58 morsels	det
58	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 esteemed	nsubj:pass
59	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 esteemed	aux:pass
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 esteemed	advmod
61	generally	generally	ADV	_	62 much	advmod
62	much	much	ADV	_	63 esteemed	advmod
63	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 teased	advcl
64	;	;	PUNCT	_	71 rushed	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 Badi	cc
66	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 rushed	nsubj
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	68 al	punct
68	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Badi	appos
69	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 Zaman	punct
70	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 al	flat
71	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
72	from	from	ADP	_	74 cottage	case
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 cottage	det
74	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 rushed	obl
75	vowing	vow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	71 rushed	advcl
76	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 vowing	obj
77	against	against	ADP	_	80 family	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 family	det
79	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	80 family	amod
80	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 vowing	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wife					terrified property	tree rules
2	fall	past	wife			wife's knees	before Fowler		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location
3	confess	past	wife not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past · perfect	wife's two children						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arrive	past	Fowler						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tease	past · perfect	wife not said here	wife				for some	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	prepare	past · progressive	wife	the dish not said here					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
8	give	past · perfect	wife	the head	one and the heart to the other			presently property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Theme to one=Recipient
9	not esteem	present · passive		this morsels					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
10	rush	past	Badi			the cottage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cottage=Trajectory
11	vow	gerund	Badi not said here	vengeance				against the whole family	tree rules

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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