The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 9

The next morning he went to the false bride's room, but her ladies told him she would neither speak nor get up, though she ate everything they set before her.

Who acts: length, ladies, bride · What happens: go, tell, speak, get up, eat, set · To what, where: room, length, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, ladies, bride), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
8	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bride	amod
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 bride	case
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ladies	nmod:poss
15	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 speak	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
20	neither	neither	ADV	_	21 speak	advmod
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 get	cc
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 speak	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 get	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 ate	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	nsubj
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
29	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 ate	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 everything	acl:relcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	length			the false bride's room	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	bride's ladies		length				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	would	bride					neither property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get up	infinitive	bride not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat	past	bride	everything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
6	set	present	ladies = lady				before bride		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before she=Destination

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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