The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 11

The princess was very much vexed with her ladies-in-waiting for frightening away her old playfellow, and told the queen who came to her room every evening to bid her good-night.

Who acts: queen · What happens: vex, wait away, tell, come, bid · To what, where: princess, old playfellow, queen, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vexed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 vexed	advmod
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ladies	nmod:poss
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vexed	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 waiting	mark
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 vexed	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 frightening	case
15	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 waiting	obl
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 waiting	advmod
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 playfellow	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 playfellow	amod
19	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 queen	det
24	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 queen	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 room	nmod:poss
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl:unmarked
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bid	mark
33	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	advcl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 night	nmod:poss
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 night	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 good	punct
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bid	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		the princess				with princess's ladies	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	wait away	gerund		princess's old playfellow				for frightening; away property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past			the queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
4	come	past	the queen			princess's room	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
5	bid	to-infinitive	the queen not said here				night		tree rules

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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