The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 79

So, the next morning, the princess told her father of her dream, and by her advice he cut notches in each of the canes when he took them out of the water, so that he might make no mistake when he handed them back to the messenger.

Who acts: princess, father · What happens: tell, cut, take, make, hand back, dream · To what, where: father, notches, each, canes, water, mistake · 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 (princess, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 morning	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 dream	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dream	nmod:poss
14	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 advice	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 advice	nmod:poss
19	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cut	nsubj
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	parataxis
22	notches	notch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cut	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 each	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 cut	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 canes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 canes	det
27	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 each	nmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 took	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 water	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 make	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 make	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 make	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 make	aux
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 took	parataxis
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 mistake	det
43	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 handed	advmod
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 handed	nsubj
46	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 make	advcl
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 handed	obj
48	back	back	ADV	_	46 handed	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 messenger	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 messenger	det
51	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 handed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		princess's father of princess's dream		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
2	cut	past	father	notches		each		by princess's advice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notch=Product
3	take	past	father	canes = cane		the water			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out water=Initial_Location
4	make	might	father	no mistake					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
5	hand back	past	father	canes = cane		the messenger			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to messenger=Destination
6	dream		princess						nom dream «cognition 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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