The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 18

Hither the princess would come each evening towards sunset, attended by her ladies, and gather herself the flowers that were to adorn her rooms.

Who acts: princess, flowers · What happens: come, attend, gather, adorn · To what, where: sunset, princess, rooms

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, flowers), 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	Hither	hither	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl:unmarked
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 sunset	case
9	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attended	punct
11	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sunset	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 ladies	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ladies	nmod:poss
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attended	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gather	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gather	cc
17	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 gather	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gather	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 adorn	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 adorn	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 adorn	mark
24	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flowers	acl:relcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rooms	nmod:poss
26	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 adorn	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	the princess		evening; sunset	hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attend	participle		sunset not said here		by princess's ladies	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by lady=Theme
3	gather	infinitive	the princess not said here	princess			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary flower=Theme
4	adorn	past	the flowers	princess's rooms			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination

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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