The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 58

She took him to her house and told him not to go away, for that she would provide for all his wants.

Who acts: princess, pity · What happens: take, tell, not go away, provide, want · To what, where: pity, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, pity), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 provide	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 provide	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 provide	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 provide	aux
19	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 wants	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 wants	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wants	nmod:poss
23	wants	want	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 provide	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess	pity		princess's house		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	princess not said here		pity			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	provide	would	princess				for that; for pity's wants	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for that=Recipient
5	want		pity					nom want «state transitive»: 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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