Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 222

So the princess and the shadow were soon engaged to each other, but no one was to be told a word about it, till she returned to her kingdom.

Who acts: nail · What happens: engage, tell, return · To what, where: princess, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nail), 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 engaged	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 engaged	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shadow	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 princess	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 engaged	aux:pass
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 engaged	advmod
9	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 engaged	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux:pass
18	to	to	PART	_	20 told	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	aux:pass
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 engaged	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 word	det
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 word	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 returned	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 returned	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 returned	nsubj
28	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kingdom	nmod:poss
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 returned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	engage	past · passive		the princess and the shadow	to each; soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		no one		tree rules
3	return	past	nail		to nail's kingdom result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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