The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 106

Neither the queen nor the frog said anything about it, but somehow, as always happens, the story came to the ears of the Lion Fairy, and she sent a raven to fetch the culprit.

Who acts: queen, story · What happens: say, happen, come, send, fetch · To what, where: anything, ears, raven, culprit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, story), 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	Neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 said	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 frog	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 queen	conj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 said	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 anything	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 somehow	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 somehow	cc
13	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happens	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 happens	mark
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 happens	advmod
17	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happens	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ears	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ears	det
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Fairy	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Fairy	det
27	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Fairy	compound
28	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ears	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sent	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sent	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sent	nsubj
32	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 raven	det
34	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sent	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fetch	mark
36	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sent	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 culprit	det
38	culprit	culprit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fetch	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the queen nor the frog	anything		about thyme; somehow property	tree rules
2	happen	present				always property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the story		the ears of the Lion Fairy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
4	send	past	queen	a raven			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme
5	fetch	to-infinitive	queen not said here	the culprit			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent culprit=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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