The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 75

With the golden hen under his arm he presented himself before the king, and told his adventures, and how he was going to have for a wife a princess so wonderful and unlike all other princesses, that the star on her forehead could turn night into day.

Who acts: boy, star · What happens: present, tell, go, have, turn, adventure · To what, where: boy, adventures, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, star), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 hen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hen	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hen	amod
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 presented	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arm	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hen	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 presented	nsubj
9	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 presented	obj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 presented	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 presented	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 adventures	nmod:poss
18	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 going	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 going	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 told	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 have	mark
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 wife	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wife	det
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 wonderful	advmod
33	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 going	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 princesses	cc
35	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	38 princesses	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 princesses	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 princesses	amod
38	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wonderful	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 turn	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 turn	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 star	det
42	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turn	nsubj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 forehead	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 forehead	nmod:poss
45	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 star	nmod
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 turn	aux
47	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	conj
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turn	obl:unmarked
49	into	into	ADP	_	50 day	case
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turn	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	present	past	boy	boy	before the king	with the golden hen under boy's arm	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with hen=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past		boy's adventures			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	boy				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a princess		for a wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
5	turn	could	the star on princess's forehead		day; night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	adventure		boy				nom adventure «act 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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