The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 40

'I heard that the princess was going to be married,' said Peder, 'so I've brought your majesty a cow which is bigger than any cow that was ever seen.

Who acts: I, princess, Peder, cow · What happens: hear, go, marry, say, bring, be · To what, where: majesty, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princess, Peder, cow), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	11 married	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 married	aux:pass
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 going	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Peder	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 Peder	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 brought	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
20	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 majesty	nmod:poss
23	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bigger	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 bigger	cop
28	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 cow	amod
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 cow	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 cow	det
31	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bigger	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 seen	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux:pass
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 seen	advmod
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cow	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past · progressive	the princess				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry	to-infinitive · passive	the princess not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
4	say speech: assert	past	Peder				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bring	present · perfect	I	your majesty			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument majesty=Theme cow=Destination
6	is	present	a cow			than any cow; big property	tree rules
7	see	past · passive		any cow	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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