The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 110

For a nurse of hers used to be telling her of an enchanted prince that she called by that name, and she fell in love with him, and his name was the first name on her tongue, for the very night before she was dreaming of him.

Who acts: Norway, name, king · What happens: use, tell, enchant, call, fall, be · To what, where: Norway, enchanted prince, love, first name, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norway, name, king), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 nurse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hers	case
5	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nurse	nmod
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 telling	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 telling	aux
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 used	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 telling	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 prince	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 prince	det
13	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 prince	amod
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 called	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 prince	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 name	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 name	det
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	parataxis
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 love	case
26	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 name	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 name	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 name	nmod:poss
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 name	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 name	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 name	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 name	amod
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 tongue	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tongue	nmod:poss
39	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 name	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 night	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 night	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 night	det
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 night	advmod
44	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl:unmarked
45	before	before	SCONJ	_	48 dreaming	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 dreaming	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 dreaming	aux
48	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 fell	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 dreaming	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past						for a nurse of Norway	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · progressive			Norway			of a enchanted prince	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	call	participle	Norway	a enchanted prince not said here				by that name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
5	fall	past	Norway			love	night	with king	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
6	is a	past	king's name	the first name		Norway's tongue			tree rules
7	dream	past · progressive	Norway					of king	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
8	name		king						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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