The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 52

The prince told everything just as it had happened to him, and then respectfully added: “I have made known my own circumstances to you, and now I venture to beg you to tell me your own.

Who acts: prince, it · What happens: tell, happen, add, make, know, venture · To what, where: everything, Prince, own circumstances, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 told	obj
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 happened	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 happened	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 added	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 added	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 added	advmod
15	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	16 added	advmod
16	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 added	parataxis
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 made	xcomp
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 circumstances	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 circumstances	amod
25	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 known	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 known	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 venture	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 venture	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 venture	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 venture	nsubj
32	venture	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 beg	mark
34	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 venture	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 beg	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 tell	mark
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 beg	advcl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 own	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tell	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the prince	everything				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	it		Prince			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	add speech: assert	past	the prince not said here			then	respectfully property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	present · perfect	the prince = prince					tree rules
5	know in a quote	participle	the prince = prince not said here	my own circumstances	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer circumstance=Stimulus
6	venture in a quote	present	the prince = prince			now		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	beg speech: request in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here		you			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here		the prince = prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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