The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 75

The Prince met them joyfully, and they began to tell him all their adventures; but he managed to hide from them what he had been doing, and even led them to think that a turnspit dog which he had with him was the one he was bringing for the King.

Who acts: Prince, Princes, Bow, turnspit dog · What happens: meet, begin, tell, manage, hide, do · To what, where: brothers, adventures, Bow, Princes, turnspit dog, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princes, Bow, turnspit dog), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	obj
5	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 met	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 adventures	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 adventures	nmod:poss
15	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tell	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 managed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 managed	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 managed	nsubj
19	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hide	mark
21	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 managed	xcomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hide	obl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 doing	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 doing	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 doing	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 doing	aux
28	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 hide	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 led	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 led	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 led	advmod
32	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 managed	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 led	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 think	mark
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 led	xcomp
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 one	mark
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 dog	det
38	turnspit	turnspit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dog	compound
39	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 one	nsubj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 dog	acl:relcl
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	obl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 one	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 one	det
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 think	ccomp
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 bringing	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 bringing	aux
50	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 one	acl:relcl
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 King	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 King	det
53	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 bringing	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the Prince	brothers = brother		joyfully property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
2	begin	past	Princes = prince				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here	Princes's adventures	Bow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
4	manage	past	Bow				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hide	to-infinitive	Bow not said here			from Princes = prince	tree rules
6	do	past · perfect · progressive	Bow				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	lead	past	Bow not said here	Princes = prince			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	have	past	Bow	a turnspit dog		with horse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
10	is a	past	a turnspit dog	the one			tree rules
11	bring	past · progressive	Bow	the one not said here		for the King	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
12	adventure		Princes = prince				nom adventure «act 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 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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