English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 54

The queen was so enraged at the honours conferred on Sir Thomas that she resolved to ruin him, and told the king that the little knight had been saucy to her.

Who acts: queen, little knight · What happens: enrage, confer, resolve, ruin, tell, be · To what, where: queen, honours, Tom, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, little knight), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enraged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enraged	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 enraged	advmod
5	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 honours	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 honours	det
8	honours	honour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enraged	obl
9	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 honours	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Thomas	case
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Thomas	nmod:desc
12	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conferred	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 resolved	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 resolved	nsubj
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 conferred	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ruin	mark
17	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 resolved	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ruin	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enraged	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 saucy	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knight	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knight	amod
27	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saucy	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 saucy	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 saucy	cop
30	saucy	saucy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 told	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saucy	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enrage	past · passive		the queen		the honours		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	confer	participle		the honours not said here			on Thomas Sir	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on thomas=Topic
3	resolve	past	queen					tree rules
4	ruin	to-infinitive	queen not said here	Tom				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past			the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
6	is	past · perfect	the little knight		queen		saucy property	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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