The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 73

She took council with her father’s wisest men as to what ought to be done, and among other things they advised her to build a house beside the highway, and put over the door this inscription:—“Whoever will tell the story of his life, may stay here three nights for nothing.”

Who acts: princess, men, Whoever · What happens: take, do, advise, build, put, tell · To what, where: council, princess, house, highway, inscription, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, men, Whoever), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 men	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
10	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 what	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 took	obl
13	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 done	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ought	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 advised	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 advised	cc
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 things	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 advised	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 advised	nsubj
23	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 advised	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 build	mark
26	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 advised	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 build	obj
29	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 highway	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 highway	det
31	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 build	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 door	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 door	det
37	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 inscription	det
39	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
41	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
43	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 tell	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	aux
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	parataxis
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 story	det
47	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tell	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 life	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 life	nmod:poss
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 story	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 stay	punct
52	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 stay	aux
53	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 tell	conj
54	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 stay	advmod
55	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 nights	nummod
56	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 stay	obl:unmarked
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 nothing	case
58	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	53 stay	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess	council			with princess's father's wisest men	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	princess not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	advise speech: other	past	men = man	princess			among other things	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	build not said to happen	to-infinitive		a house	the highway			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
5	put	participle	princess not said here	this inscription	the door			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inscription=Theme over door=Destination
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Whoever	the story of father's life				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
7	stay in a quote	may	Whoever not said here		here	night	for nothing	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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