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	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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