The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 102

This he sucked, as he had been told to do by the old woman, and immediately the princess came to herself, and flung her arms round his neck.

Who acts: This, castle, princess · What happens: suck, tell, do, come, fling · To what, where: castle, princess, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, castle, princess), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sucked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sucked	nsubj
3	sucked	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sucked	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sucked	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 herself	case
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flung	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flung	cc
26	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sucked	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flung	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flung	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suck	past	This				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		castle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	castle not said here			by the old woman	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	the princess		princess	immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location
5	fling	past	This not said here	princess's arms		round castle's neck	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

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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