The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 56

In it was a daughter of Taram taq, still a child She sent a message to Prince Almas saying, “O king of the world! choose this slave to be your handmaid.

Who acts: castle, child · What happens: be, send, say, choose · To what, where: child, king, slave, handmaid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, child), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 daughter	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daughter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 taq	case
7	Taram	Taram	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taq	compound
8	taq	taq	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 child	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obl
13	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sent	nsubj
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 message	det
16	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Prince	case
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 message	nmod
19	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Prince	flat
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sent	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 king	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 king	punct
23	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	24 king	case
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saying	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 king	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 king	punct
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 slave	det
31	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 choose	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	35 handmaid	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 handmaid	cop
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 handmaid	nmod:poss
35	handmaid	handmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slave	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	castle		in a daughter; of Taram taq	tree rules
2	send	past	child	a child		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to prince=Destination
3	say speech: express	gerund	child not said here	king of the world		tree rules
4	choose in a quote	infinitive		this slave		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		your handmaid		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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/56/