The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 12

The following morning the princess declared that she had been thinking about the matter, and that, as she was not a subject of the king, she saw no reason why she should be bound by his laws; and she meant to be married that very day.

Who acts: princess, laws · What happens: follow, declare, think, not be, see, bind · To what, where: subject, reason, princess, day · 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 (princess, laws), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	nsubj
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thinking	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thinking	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thinking	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thinking	aux
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 declared	advcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 matter	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 matter	det
14	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thinking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 that	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 that	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 declared	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subject	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 subject	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 subject	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 subject	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 subject	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 subject	det
24	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subject	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declared	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 reason	det
32	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
33	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	37 bound	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bound	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 bound	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 bound	aux:pass
37	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 reason	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 laws	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 laws	nmod:poss
40	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 bound	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 meant	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 meant	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 meant	nsubj
44	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declared	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	47 married	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 married	aux:pass
47	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 meant	ccomp
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 day	mark
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 day	advmod
50	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 married	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the princess		morning		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past · perfect · progressive	princess			about the matter	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about matter=Topic
4	not is a	past	princess	a subject		of the king	tree rules
5	see	past	princess	no reason			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
6	bind	should · passive	king's laws	princess			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
7	mean	past	princess				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive		day			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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