The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 82

They reported to the Prince that Suliman, for that was the tutor’s name, had boasted of having helped Celia to escape, and they bribed three men to say that Suliman himself had told them about it.

Who acts: anger, that, Celia, Suliman · What happens: report, be, boast, help, escape, bribe · To what, where: Suliman, Celia, three men, anger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, that, Celia, Suliman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reported	nsubj
2	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reported	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 boasted	mark
7	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 boasted	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	15 name	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 name	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 name	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tutor	det
13	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 tutor	case
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Suliman	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Suliman	punct
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boasted	aux
18	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reported	ccomp
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 helped	mark
20	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 helped	aux
21	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 boasted	advcl
22	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 helped	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 escape	mark
24	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 helped	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bribed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bribed	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bribed	nsubj
28	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reported	conj
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 men	nummod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bribed	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 say	mark
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bribed	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 told	mark
34	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 told	nsubj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 Suliman	nmod:unmarked
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 told	aux
37	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 say	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	report	past	anger			to the Prince	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to prince=be' clause=Attribute
2	is	past	that			for the tutor's name	tree rules
3	boast speech: other	past · perfect · passive		Suliman			tree rules
4	help	gerund · perfect		Celia			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent celia=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	escape	to-infinitive	Celia not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bribe	past	anger	three men			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	anger not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Suliman brother		anger	about tutor	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about it=Topic

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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