The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 76

He went to Prince Ring and said: “Do come with me and see the strange things that are happening in the new princess’s room.”

Who acts: Ring, strange things · What happens: go, say, come, see, happen · To what, where: Prince Ring, strange things, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring, strange things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Ring	case
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ring	compound
5	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 come	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 things	det
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 happening	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 happening	aux
21	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 things	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 princess	amod
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 room	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 princess	case
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 happening	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ring		Prince Ring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ring=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Ring not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive · do-support				with Ring	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive		the strange things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	happen in a quote	present · progressive	the strange things		the new princess's room		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=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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