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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 71

Now, when the prince found that he was not likely to leave his father’s kingdom again, he sent for his wife, and bade the messenger tell her that he would await her coming in the town on the banks of the great river.

Who acts: prince, bade · What happens: find, not be, leave, send, tell, await · To what, where: kingdom, messenger, town · 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 (prince, bade), 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

advmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjadvclmarknsubjcopadvmodccompmarkxcompnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjadvmodpunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjdetnmod:unmarkedconjiobjmarknsubjauxccompobjadvclcasedetoblcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETprinceNOUNfoundVERBthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXnotPARTlikelyADJtoPARTleaveVERBhisPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTkingdomNOUNagainADV,PUNCThePRONsentVERBforADPhisPRONwifeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbadeNOUNtheDETmessengerNOUNtellVERBherPRONthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXawaitVERBherPRONcomingVERBinADPtheDETtownNOUNonADPtheDETbanksNOUNofADPtheDETgreatADJriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem21 sentadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3whenwhenADVPronType=Int6 foundadvmod
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 princedet
5princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing6 foundnsubj
6foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sentadvcl
7thatthatSCONJ_11 likelymark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 likelynsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 likelycop
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 likelyadvmod
11likelylikelyADJDegree=Pos6 foundccomp
12totoPART_13 leavemark
13leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf11 likelyxcomp
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 fathernmod:poss
15fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 kingdomnmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 fathercase
17kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing13 leaveobj
18againagainADV_13 leaveadvmod
19,,PUNCT_6 foundpunct
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sentnsubj
21sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
22forforADP_24 wifecase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 wifenmod:poss
24wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing21 sentobl
25,,PUNCT_30 tellpunct
26andandCCONJ_30 tellcc
27badebadeNOUNNumber=Sing30 tellnsubj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 messengerdet
29messengermessengerNOUNNumber=Sing27 badenmod:unmarked
30telltellVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 sentconj
31hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 telliobj
32thatthatSCONJ_35 awaitmark
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 awaitnsubj
34wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 awaitaux
35awaitawaitVERBVerbForm=Inf30 tellccomp
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 awaitobj
37comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 awaitadvcl
38ininADP_40 towncase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 towndet
40towntownNOUNNumber=Sing37 comingobl
41ononADP_43 bankscase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 banksdet
43banksbankNOUNNumber=Plur37 comingobl
44ofofADP_47 rivercase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 riverdet
46greatgreatADJDegree=Pos47 riveramod
47riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing43 banksnmod
48..PUNCT_21 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastthe princevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2not ispastprincelikely propertytree rules
3leaveto-infinitiveprince not said hereprince's father's kingdomagainvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
4sendpastprincenowfor prince's wifevn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5tell speech: assertpresentbade the messengermessengervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6awaitwouldprincemessengertree rules
7comegerundprince not said herethe townon the banks of the great rivervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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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