The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 90

Then she raised her voice, and began to talk quickly of the prices of the chains and necklaces, and after some bargaining, to deceive the attendants, she declared that she liked one string of pearls better than all the rest, and that the ogre might take away the other things, which were not half as valuable as he supposed.

Who acts: princess, some, ogre, other things · What happens: raise, begin, talk, bargain, deceive, declare · To what, where: voice, attendants, one string, other things

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, some, ogre, other things), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 raised	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raised	nsubj
3	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raised	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 talk	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 prices	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prices	det
14	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 chains	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chains	det
17	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 prices	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 necklaces	cc
19	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chains	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 declared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 declared	cc
22	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 bargaining	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 bargaining	nsubj
24	bargaining	bargain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 declared	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deceive	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 deceive	mark
27	deceive	deceive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 bargaining	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 attendants	det
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 deceive	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bargaining	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 declared	nsubj
32	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 liked	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 liked	nsubj
35	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 declared	advcl
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 string	nummod
37	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 liked	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 pearls	case
39	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 string	nmod
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 liked	xcomp
41	than	than	ADP	_	44 rest	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 rest	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 rest	det
44	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 better	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 take	cc
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 take	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ogre	det
49	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 take	aux
51	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 raised	conj
52	away	away	ADP	_	51 take	compound:prt
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 things	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 things	amod
55	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 take	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 valuable	punct
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 valuable	nsubj
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 valuable	cop
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 half	advmod
60	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	62 valuable	advmod
61	as	as	ADV	_	62 valuable	advmod
62	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 things	acl:relcl
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 supposed	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 supposed	nsubj
65	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 valuable	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	princess	princess's voice	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
2	begin	past	princess not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	to-infinitive	princess not said here			of the prices of the chains and necklaces; quickly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bargain	gerund	some				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	deceive	to-infinitive	some not said here	the attendants			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient
6	declare speech: other	past	princess				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	like	past	princess	one string of pearls		good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot string=Theme
8	take away	might	the ogre	the other things			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
9	is	past	the other things			half, valuable property	tree rules
10	suppose	past	ogre				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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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