The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 74

And with these words she vanished by the window through which she came, while the fairies comforted the weeping queen and took counsel how best the princess might be kept safe during her childhood.

Who acts: queen, fairies · What happens: vanish, come, comfort, take, keep · To what, where: weeping queen, counsel, princess

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, fairies), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 vanished	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vanished	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vanished	nsubj
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanished	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 came	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vanished	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 comforted	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 comforted	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairies	det
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 comforted	nsubj
18	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 queen	det
20	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 queen	compound
21	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comforted	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 comforted	conj
24	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 kept	advmod
26	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 kept	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kept	nsubj:pass
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 kept	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 kept	aux:pass
31	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 took	advcl
32	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 kept	xcomp
33	during	during	ADP	_	35 childhood	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 childhood	nmod:poss
35	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 safe	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	queen		with this words; by the window	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	queen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
3	comfort	past	the fairies	the weeping queen		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer
4	take	past	the fairies not said here	counsel		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
5	keep	might · passive		the princess	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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