English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 10
At that the new queen flushed up and cried out: “At least your courtesy might have excepted me,” and then she muttered below her breath: “I'll soon put an end to her beauty.”
Who acts: queen · What happens: flush up, cry out, accept, mutter, put · To what, where: new queen, courtesy, breath, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 queen | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 queen | amod |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | flushed | flush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 queen | acl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 flushed | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flushed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 excepted | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 excepted | punct |
| 13 | At | at | ADP | _ | 14 least | case |
| 14 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 courtesy | nmod |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 courtesy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 excepted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 excepted | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 excepted | aux |
| 19 | excepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 queen | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 excepted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 excepted | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 excepted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 muttered | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 muttered | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 muttered | nsubj |
| 26 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 excepted | conj |
| 27 | below | below | ADP | _ | 29 breath | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 breath | nmod:poss |
| 29 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 muttered | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 put | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 put | aux |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 put | advmod |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 queen | parataxis |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 end | det |
| 37 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 beauty | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 40 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flush up | participle | the new queen not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | accept in a quote | might · perfect · passive | your courtesy at least | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mutter speech: assert | past | queen | queen's breath | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | put in a quote | future | queen | a end | to queen's beauty; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
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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