The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 47

Holding me fast, he told me that he intended to give the crown to his daughter, and to enchant my husband the prince, so that he should not know the difference between us.

Who acts: giant · What happens: hold, tell, intend, give, enchant, not know · To what, where: me, crown, daughter, husband, difference · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	advcl
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obj
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Holding	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Holding	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 intended	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 intended	nsubj
10	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intended	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crown	det
14	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 enchant	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 enchant	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 enchant	mark
21	enchant	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enchant	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prince	det
25	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enchant	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 know	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 know	advmod
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 enchant	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 difference	det
34	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 know	obj
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 us	case
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 difference	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	giant not said here	me		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	giant		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	intend	past	giant				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	giant not said here	the crown	giant's daughter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to daughter=Recipient
5	enchant	to-infinitive	giant not said here	my husband			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer prince=Result
6	not know	should	giant	the difference		between us	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

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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