The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 106

And when the old woman entered his presence he informed her that he was ready to fulfil his promise, and she was to bid her son appear at the palace without delay.

Who acts: old woman, son, woman · What happens: enter, inform, be, fulfil, appear, promise · To what, where: presence, woman, promise, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, son, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 informed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 entered	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 informed	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 presence	nmod:poss
8	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 informed	nsubj
10	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 informed	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ready	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ready	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 informed	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fulfil	mark
17	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 promise	nmod:poss
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fulfil	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bid	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bid	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bid	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bid	mark
25	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 informed	ccomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appear	nsubj
28	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bid	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palace	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appear	obl
32	without	without	ADP	_	33 delay	case
33	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 palace	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the old woman	son's presence				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination
2	inform speech: other	past	son		woman			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	son				ready property	tree rules
4	fulfil	to-infinitive	son not said here	son's promise				tree rules
5	is	past	woman				bid property	tree rules
6	appear	present	woman's son			the palace without delay		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location
7	promise		son					nom promise «communication 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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