The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 151

The Princess heard him, and sent out one of her slaves, who said to the old peddler:

Who acts: Princess, slaves · What happens: hear, send out, say · To what, where: man, one, old peddler · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, slaves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 sent	compound:prt
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sent	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 slaves	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 slaves	nmod:poss
12	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slaves	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 peddler	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 peddler	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 peddler	amod
19	peddler	peddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	the Princess	man		tree rules
2	send out	participle		one of princess's slaves		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	princess's slaves		the old peddler	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peddler=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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