The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 28

And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father’s court he stayed, while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr.

Who acts: new queen, man, years, queen · What happens: be, send, fetch, stay, go, tell · To what, where: messengers, boy, court, man, prophecy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new queen, man, years, queen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 pleased	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleased	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 pleased	advmod
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sent	cc
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	parataxis
11	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fetch	mark
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sent	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fetch	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stayed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stayed	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 court	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 court	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stayed	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stayed	nsubj
24	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 years	det
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stayed	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 day	case
31	till	till	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 day	nummod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 queen	det
35	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	nsubj
36	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 told	iobj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 foretold	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 prophecy	det
40	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 foretold	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 foretold	aux
42	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 told	ccomp
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 win	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 win	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 win	cop
46	to	to	PART	_	47 win	mark
47	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 foretold	advcl
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 wife	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 wife	nmod:poss
50	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 win	obl
51	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 wife	appos
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 daughter	det
53	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 win	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 Yspaddaden	case
55	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 daughter	nmod
56	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Yspaddaden	flat
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the new queen					pleased property	tree rules
2	send	past		messengers					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
3	fetch	to-infinitive		the boy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
4	stay	past	man			man's father's court			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location
5	go	past	the years						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the queen		man		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	foretell	past · perfect · passive		a prophecy					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	is	past	man					for man's wife; the daughter of Yspaddaden obl; win property	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 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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