The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 43

“I have brought him from the gallows,” answered the king; rather vexed at his daughter’s words, as never before had she consented to speak to any man.

Who acts: king, princess, daughter · What happens: bring, answer, vex, have, consent, speak · To what, where: coach, gallows, words, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess, daughter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 answered	parataxis
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 gallows	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gallows	det
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 vexed	punct
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 vexed	advmod
16	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 words	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 words	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 daughter	case
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vexed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 before	advmod
25	before	before	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 vexed	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	obj
28	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 had	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 speak	mark
30	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 consented	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 man	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 speak	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present · perfect	the king = king	coach	the gallows		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from gallows=Initial_Location
2	answer speech: assert	past	the king				tree rules
3	vex	past	the king not said here		coach's daughter's words		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	the king not said here	princess		before property	tree rules
5	consent	participle	princess not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	princess not said here			to any man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent
7	word		coach's daughter				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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