The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 84

At first the Queen was afraid to tell him, but when, as soon as they reached the palace, five frightful little dwarfs were sent by the fairies to fetch me, she was obliged to confess what she had promised.

Who acts: Queen, mules, fairies · What happens: be, tell, reach, send, fetch, oblige · To what, where: King, palace, five frightful little dwarfs, me, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, mules, fairies), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	6 afraid	mark
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 afraid	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 sent	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 reached	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 dwarfs	nummod
23	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dwarfs	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dwarfs	amod
25	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux:pass
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 afraid	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 fairies	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fairies	det
30	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fetch	mark
32	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sent	advcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 fetch	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 obliged	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 obliged	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 obliged	aux:pass
37	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 afraid	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 confess	mark
39	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 obliged	xcomp
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 promised	obj
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 promised	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 promised	aux
43	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 confess	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			afraid, first property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	reach	past	mules = mule	the palace		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
4	send	past · passive	the fairies	five frightful little dwarfs			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	fetch	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	oblige	past · passive		Queen			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	confess	to-infinitive					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Queen				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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