The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 22

“From whom, then, did the princess hear of it?

What happens: do · To what, where: princess hear

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 whom	punct
2	From	from	ADP	_	3 whom	case
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whom	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hear	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	compound
10	hear	hear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past		the princess hear of hear			then		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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