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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 83

The day after her marriage the bride sent a messenger, bearing handsome presents to her father, and telling him of the good fortune which had befallen her.

Who acts: bride, feast · What happens: send, bear, tell, befall, marry · To what, where: messenger, handsome presents, prince, good fortune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, feast), 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

detobl:unmarkedcasenmod:possnmoddetnsubjdetobjpunctadvclamodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjiobjcasedetamodoblnsubj:passauxacl:relclobjpunctrootTheDETdayNOUNafterADPherPRONmarriageNOUNtheDETbrideNOUNsentVERBaDETmessengerNOUN,PUNCTbearingVERBhandsomeADJpresentsNOUNtoADPherPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtellingVERBhimPRONofADPtheDETgoodADJfortuneNOUNwhichPRONhadAUXbefallenVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 daydet
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing8 sentobl:unmarked
3afterafterADP_5 marriagecase
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 marriagenmod:poss
5marriagemarriageNOUNNumber=Sing2 daynmod
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 bridedet
7bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing8 sentnsubj
8sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 messengerdet
10messengermessengerNOUNNumber=Sing8 sentobj
11,,PUNCT_12 bearingpunct
12bearingbearVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 sentadvcl
13handsomehandsomeADJDegree=Pos14 presentsamod
14presentspresentNOUNNumber=Plur12 bearingobj
15totoADP_17 fathercase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 fathernmod:poss
17fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing12 bearingobl
18,,PUNCT_20 tellingpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 tellingcc
20tellingtellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 bearingconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 tellingiobj
22ofofADP_25 fortunecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 fortunedet
24goodgoodADJDegree=Pos25 fortuneamod
25fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing20 tellingobl
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 befallennsubj:pass
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 befallenaux
28befallenbefallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 fortuneacl:relcl
29hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 befallenobj
30..PUNCT_8 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpastthe bridea messengerdayvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2beargerundthe bride not said herehandsome presentsto feast's fathervn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient
3tell speech: assertgerundthe bride not said hereprinceof the good fortunevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4befallpast · perfect · passivethe good fortunetree rules
5marryfeastnom marriage «state 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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