English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 57
When the queen saw him she was in a rage, and said he should be beheaded; and he was again put into a mouse trap until the time of his execution.
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: see, be, say, behead, put, execute · To what, where: king, rage, mouse trap · 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, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rage | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rage | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rage | det |
| 10 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 beheaded | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 17 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux:pass |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 put | advmod |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 trap | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 trap | det |
| 26 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trap | compound |
| 27 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 28 | until | until | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 execution | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 execution | nmod:poss |
| 33 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the queen | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | queen | a rage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | behead | should · passive | king | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | put | past · passive | king | a mouse trap | again; time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||
| 6 | execute | king | nom execution «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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