English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 72

The king was quite charmed to get rid so easily of such plagues, and the queen desired that the creature who had done them so great a kindness might be brought to her, that she might look at her.

Who acts: queen, creature · What happens: charm, get, desire, do, bring, look · To what, where: king, plagues, kindness, creature

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, creature), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charmed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 charmed	aux:pass
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 charmed	advmod
5	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 charmed	advcl
8	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 easily	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 plagues	case
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plagues	amod
13	plagues	plague	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 easily	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 desired	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 queen	det
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 desired	nsubj
18	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 charmed	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 great	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 creature	det
21	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 great	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 creature	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 great	advmod
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 desired	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 kindness	det
29	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 brought	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 brought	aux:pass
32	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 great	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 look	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 look	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 look	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 look	aux
39	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 desired	conj
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 look	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 charmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	charm	past · passive		the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	get	to-infinitive				easily, rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	desire	past	the queen				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	do	past · perfect	the creature	plagues = plague			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	bring	might · passive		a kindness	creature		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination
6	look	might	queen			at creature	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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: «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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