The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 73

The princess sat in a rose-red room, and when she saw the brothers coming near she called her nurse and other women, and told them to inquire who and what these people were, and what they wanted.

Who acts: princess, brothers, people · What happens: sit, see, come, call, tell, inquire · To what, where: red room, brothers, nurse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, brothers, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 red	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	obj
17	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 brothers	acl
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 called	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 coming	ccomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nurse	nmod:poss
22	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 women	cc
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 women	amod
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nurse	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 inquire	mark
31	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	xcomp
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 inquire	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 what	cc
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 who	conj
35	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 were	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 what	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 what	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 what	cc
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 told	parataxis
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 what	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the princess			a red room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	see	past	princess	the brothers			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	the brothers not said here				tree rules
4	call	past	princess	princess's nurse and other women			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past	the princess not said here		nurse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	inquire speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient
7	want	past	people				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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