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English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 74

He then presented her to the queen, who started back, and was afraid to touch a creature who had made such a havoc among the rats and mice.

Who acts: captain, queen, creature · What happens: present, start back, be, touch, make · To what, where: creature, queen, havoc

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 (captain, 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

nsubjadvmodobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctcccopconjmarkxcompdetobjnsubjauxacl:relcldet:predetdetobjcasedetoblccconjpunctrootHePRONthenADVpresentedVERBherPRONtoADPtheDETqueenNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONstartedVERBbackADV,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXafraidADJtoPARTtouchVERBaDETcreatureNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXmadeVERBsuchDETaDEThavocNOUNamongADPtheDETratsNOUNandCCONJmiceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 presentednsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 presentedadvmod
3presentedpresentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 presentedobj
5totoADP_7 queencase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 queendet
7queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing3 presentedobl
8,,PUNCT_10 startedpunct
9whowhoPRONPronType=Rel10 startednsubj
10startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 queenacl:relcl
11backbackADV_10 startedadvmod
12,,PUNCT_15 afraidpunct
13andandCCONJ_15 afraidcc
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 afraidcop
15afraidafraidADJDegree=Pos3 presentedconj
16totoPART_17 touchmark
17touchtouchVERBVerbForm=Inf15 afraidxcomp
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 creaturedet
19creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing17 touchobj
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel22 madensubj
21hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 madeaux
22mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 creatureacl:relcl
23suchsuchDETPronType=Ind25 havocdet:predet
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 havocdet
25havochavocNOUNNumber=Sing22 madeobj
26amongamongADP_28 ratscase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 ratsdet
28ratsratNOUNNumber=Plur22 madeobl
29andandCCONJ_30 micecc
30micemouseNOUNNumber=Plur28 ratsconj
31..PUNCT_3 presentedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1presentpastcaptaincreaturethe queenthenvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to queen=Recipient
2start backpastthe queenvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3ispastcaptain not said hereafraid propertytree rules
4touchto-infinitivecaptain not said herea creaturevn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Co-Theme
5makepast · perfecta creaturesuch havocamong the rats and micevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent havoc=Product

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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