The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9

Niels was silent, and wondered what the usual penalty was for a poor sheep-farmer’s son who was so unfortunate as to deliver a princess and carry off things from her bed-room.

Who acts: Niels, son · What happens: be, wonder, deliver, carry off · To what, where: princess, things, bed room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, son), 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	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 silent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	cop
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wondered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wondered	cc
6	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 silent	parataxis
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 son	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 penalty	det
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 penalty	amod
10	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 son	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 son	cop
12	for	for	ADP	_	19 son	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 farmer	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 farmer	amod
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 farmer	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sheep	punct
17	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 farmer	case
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wondered	ccomp
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 unfortunate	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 unfortunate	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 unfortunate	advmod
23	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 son	acl:relcl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 deliver	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 deliver	mark
26	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 unfortunate	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deliver	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carry	cc
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 deliver	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 carry	compound:prt
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carry	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	37 room	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 room	nmod:poss
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 room	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 bed	punct
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Niels			silent property	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	past					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				for a poor sheep farmer's son	tree rules
4	is	past	a poor sheep farmer's son			unfortunate property	tree rules
5	deliver	to-infinitive	a poor sheep farmer's son not said here	a princess			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	carry off	infinitive	a poor sheep farmer's son not said here	things	princess's bed room		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from room=Initial_Location

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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