The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 72

'Well,' she said, 'I will not cause the princess's death, as I had meant to do, but at the same time she will have to bear the punishment of her mother's fault, as many other children have done before her.

Who acts: queen, I, princess, mother · What happens: say, not cause, mean, do, have, bear · To what, where: death, punishment, many other children, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, I, princess, mother), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cause	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cause	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 cause	advmod
12	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 death	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 princess	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cause	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meant	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 meant	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 meant	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meant	aux
21	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 cause	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 meant	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bear	mark
34	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 punishment	det
36	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bear	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 fault	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fault	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 mother	case
41	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 punishment	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 done	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 done	mark
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 children	amod
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 children	amod
46	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 done	nsubj:pass
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 done	aux
48	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 have	parataxis
49	before	before	ADP	_	50 her	case
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 done	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cause	future	I	the princess's death		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
3	mean	past · perfect	I			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	future	queen		time	tree rules
6	bear	to-infinitive	queen not said here	the punishment of queen's mother's fault		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Patient
7	do	present · perfect · passive		many other children	before queen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	die		the princess			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
9	punish			queen's mother's fault		nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient
10	fault		queen's mother			nom fault «act 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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