The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 9

Then Laufer told them that Blauvor was not the wife of a king, but an ogress who had stolen her from a neighbouring palace and had brought her up as her daughter.

Who acts: Laufer, Blauvor, ogress · What happens: tell, not be, steal, neighbour, bring up · To what, where: name, wife, Blauvor, neighbouring palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laufer, Blauvor, ogress), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	Laufer	Laufer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 wife	mark
6	Blauvor	Blauvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wife	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wife	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ogress	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 ogress	cc
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ogress	det
17	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stolen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stolen	aux
20	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 ogress	acl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stolen	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 palace	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 palace	det
24	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 palace	amod
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stolen	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brought	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brought	aux
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stolen	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brought	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 brought	compound:prt
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 daughter	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 daughter	nmod:poss
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Laufer		name		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	not is a	past	Blauvor	the wife				of a king	tree rules
3	steal	past · perfect	a ogress	Blauvor		a neighbouring palace			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from palace=Source
4	neighbour	gerund							tree rules
5	bring up	past · perfect	a ogress not said here	Blauvor				as Blauvor's daughter	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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