The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 50

Now the princess, who was leaning from her window, heard his words and bade the messenger go back to the king her father and tell him that she had sworn a vow never to eat or drink again if the youth was taken from her.

Who acts: princess, messenger, prince · What happens: lean, hear, go back, tell, swear, not eat · To what, where: window, words, prince, vow, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, messenger, prince), 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	12 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaning	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 leaning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leaning	aux
7	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 princess	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 window	nmod:poss
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaning	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 words	nmod:poss
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heard	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bade	cc
16	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 messenger	det
18	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 heard	ccomp
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 king	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sworn	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sworn	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sworn	aux
32	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 eat	advcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 vow	det
34	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sworn	obj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 eat	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	ccomp
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 drink	cc
39	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 eat	conj
40	again	again	ADV	_	39 drink	advmod
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 taken	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 youth	det
43	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 taken	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 taken	aux:pass
45	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 drink	advcl
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 taken	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	past · progressive	the princess			princess's window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the princess	prince's words and bade			now		tree rules
3	go back	infinitive	the messenger					to the king result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the messenger not said here		prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	swear	past · perfect	messenger	a vow					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent vow=Eventuality
6	not eat not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	infinitive					again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the youth				from princess	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from she=Initial_Location
9	word		prince						nom word «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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