The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 81

Next morning he told this to the maidens, and they said that the charmed cake had caused it, and advised him to listen well to the birds, and see what they could tell him, and when he had recovered his bride they begged him to return and deliver them from their wretched bondage.

Who acts: prince, maidens, charmed cake, bride · What happens: tell, say, charm, cause, advise, listen · To what, where: this, maidens, forest, prince, bride, wretched bondage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, maidens, charmed cake, bride), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 told	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 maidens	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maidens	det
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 caused	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cake	det
15	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cake	amod
16	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 caused	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 caused	aux
18	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 caused	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 advised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 advised	cc
22	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advised	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 listen	mark
25	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 advised	xcomp
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 listen	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 birds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 birds	det
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 listen	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 listen	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 tell	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tell	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	aux
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 see	ccomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 recovered	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 recovered	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 recovered	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 recovered	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 recovered	aux
43	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 bride	nmod:poss
45	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 recovered	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 begged	nsubj
47	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 bride	acl:relcl
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 begged	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 return	mark
50	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 begged	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 deliver	cc
52	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 return	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 deliver	obj
54	from	from	ADP	_	57 bondage	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 bondage	nmod:poss
56	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 bondage	amod
57	bondage	bondage	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 deliver	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	prince	this	the maidens		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to maiden=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	maidens = maiden						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	charm	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cause	past · perfect	the charmed cake	forest					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
5	advise speech: other	past	prince not said here	prince					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here					to the birds; well property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme
7	see	infinitive	prince not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	tell speech: assert	could	maidens = maiden		prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
9	recover	past · perfect	prince	prince's bride					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	beg speech: request	past	maidens = maiden	prince's bride not said here	prince				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
11	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince's bride not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	deliver	infinitive	prince's bride not said here	maidens = maiden		birds's wretched bondage			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from bondage=Initial_Location

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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