The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63

Now the princess saw clearly what they were thinking, and that in future her guards would give her no help, and would perhaps, besides, tell some stories about her to the king, who would shut her up in a lonely tower and prevent her walking in the gardens among her birds and flowers.

Who acts: princess, men, that · What happens: see, think, give, tell, shut up, prevent · To what, where: help, princess, stories, king, lonely tower, walking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, men, that), 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 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saw	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thinking	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thinking	aux
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 give	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 guards	case
14	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guards	amod
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 guards	nmod:poss
16	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 that	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 help	det
21	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 tell	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 perhaps	punct
27	besides	besides	INTJ	_	29 tell	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 besides	punct
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 stories	det
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stories	nmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 king	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shut	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 shut	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 shut	aux
40	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	parataxis
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shut	obj
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 shut	compound:prt
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 tower	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 tower	det
45	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tower	amod
46	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shut	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 prevent	cc
48	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 shut	conj
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 walking	nmod:poss
50	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 prevent	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 gardens	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 gardens	det
53	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 prevent	obl
54	among	among	ADP	_	56 birds	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 birds	nmod:poss
56	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 prevent	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 flowers	cc
58	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 birds	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the princess				now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	men = man						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	would	that	no help	princess				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient help=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	would	the princess not said here	some stories	the king			about princess; perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to king=Recipient
5	shut up	would		princess		a lonely tower			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	prevent	infinitive		princess's walking		the gardens		among princess's birds and flowers	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer walking=Theme
7	walk		princess						nom walking «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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