The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 12

Now when she heard how the two young men had slain the giant, her heart was filled with admiration of their courage, and she declared that if a feast was held she would certainly be present at it.

Who acts: queen, two young men · What happens: hear, slay, fill, declare, hold, be · To what, where: giant, heart, feast, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, two young men), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 heard	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 slain	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 men	nummod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 slain	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slain	aux
11	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slain	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 filled	aux:pass
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 slain	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 admiration	case
20	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 courage	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 courage	nmod:poss
23	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 admiration	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 declared	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 declared	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 declared	nsubj
27	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 held	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 held	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 feast	det
31	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 held	aux:pass
33	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 declared	ccomp
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 present	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 present	aux
36	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	38 present	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 present	cop
38	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 held	parataxis
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 present	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	queen			now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	slay	past · perfect	the two young men	the giant				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
3	fill	past · passive		queen's heart			with admiration of men's courage	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with admiration=Instrument
4	declare speech: other	past	queen					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	hold a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a feast				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	is	would	queen		courage		certainly, present property	tree rules
7	admire			men's courage				nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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