The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 162

So she crept softly to her room, and took a piece of paper and wrote upon it: “Marry the messenger who brings this letter to the princess openly at once.

Who acts: shame, messenger · What happens: creep, take, write, marry, bring · To what, where: room, piece, messenger, letter, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, messenger), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 paper	case
14	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wrote	cc
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrote	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Marry	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Marry	punct
21	Marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wrote	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 messenger	det
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Marry	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 brings	nsubj
25	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 messenger	acl:relcl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 letter	det
27	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brings	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brings	obl
31	openly	openly	ADV	_	25 brings	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 brings	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	shame			shame's room	softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination
2	take	past		a piece of paper				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
3	write	past					upon piece	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	marry in a quote	infinitive		the messenger				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Patient
5	bring in a quote	present	the messenger	this letter	the princess		openly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to princess=Destination

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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