The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 17

At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly that nothing would content her but to bathe in the marble pool, which certainly did look very inviting; and they all went gaily to this new amusement.

Who acts: companions, princess, nothing, marble pool · What happens: be, cry out, content, bathe, look, invite · To what, where: last, princess, new amusement

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, princess, nothing, marble pool), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weary	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 weary	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weary	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weary	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 weary	advmod
8	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weary	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 cried	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 content	mark
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 content	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 content	aux
18	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 content	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 bathe	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bathe	mark
22	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 content	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 pool	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pool	det
25	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pool	compound
26	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bathe	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 look	nsubj
29	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	31 look	advmod
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 look	aux
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pool	parataxis
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 inviting	advmod
33	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 look	advcl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 went	advmod
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weary	conj
39	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 went	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 amusement	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 amusement	det
42	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 amusement	amod
43	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 weary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	companions = companion		last	weary property	tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	past	the princess			suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	content	would	nothing	princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	bathe	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			in the marble pool	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=Theme
5	look	past · do-support	the marble pool			certainly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	invite	gerund	the marble pool not said here				vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	companions = companion		this new amusement	gaily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to amusement=Initial_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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