The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 22

Now, surely, thought the princess, there was no longer any need to put off the wedding; and she gave orders that all should be ready for the following day.

Who acts: princess, orders · What happens: think, be, put off, give, follow · To what, where: wedding, orders · 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, orders), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 thought	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 surely	punct
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 need	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 need	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 was	advmod
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 need	det
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 put	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wedding	det
19	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
24	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 ready	nsubj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 ready	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 orders	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ready	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past			now	surely property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	past	the princess			need property	tree rules
3	put off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	the wedding			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wedding=Goal
4	give	past	princess	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	is	should	orders		day	ready property	tree rules
6	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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