Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 59

At last the princess agreed, but she told her chamberlain to give the prince a sleeping draught, that he might not hear or see her.

Who acts: princess, chamberlain, prince · What happens: agree, tell, give, sleep, not hear, see · To what, where: last, chamberlain, sleeping draught, prince, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, chamberlain, prince), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 agreed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chamberlain	nmod:poss
11	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 draught	det
17	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 draught	amod
18	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 hear	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hear	advmod
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 see	cc
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the princess			last	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	princess	princess's chamberlain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess's chamberlain not said here	a sleeping draught	the prince		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient draught=Theme
4	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not hear	might	prince				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	infinitive	prince not said here	princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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