The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 29

When it was dark again, and she was once more the princess Desiree, she told Eglantine what had befallen her.

Who acts: room, fancy · What happens: be, tell, befall · To what, where: Desiree, Eglantine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, fancy), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 dark	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	advcl
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Desiree	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Desiree	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Desiree	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Desiree	cop
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 Desiree	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 Desiree	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Desiree	nmod:desc
14	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dark	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 befallen	nsubj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 befallen	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 befallen	aux
21	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	ccomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 befallen	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	room		again	dark property	tree rules
2	is a	past	fancy	Desiree		the princess nmod:desc; once property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	fancy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	befall	past · perfect · passive		Eglantine			tree rules

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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