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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 108

She replied that nothing would please her better, but that her daughter seemed so unwilling to marry, and she recommended them to go and talk to the Princess about it themselves so this they at once did.

Who acts: queen, nothing, daughter, this · What happens: reply, please, seem, marry, recommend, go · To what, where: matters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (queen, nothing, daughter, this), 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

nsubjmarknsubjauxccompnmod:possxcomppunctccmarknmod:possnsubjparataxisadvmodxcompmarkxcomppunctccnsubjconjobjmarkxcompccconjcasedetoblcasenmodobladvmodnsubjnsubjmarkadvmodadvclpunctrootShePRONrepliedVERBthatSCONJnothingPRONwouldAUXpleaseVERBherPRONbetterADJ,PUNCTbutCCONJthatSCONJherPRONdaughterNOUNseemedVERBsoADVunwillingADJtoPARTmarryVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONrecommendedVERBthemPRONtoPARTgoVERBandCCONJtalkVERBtoADPtheDETPrincessNOUNaboutADPitPRONthemselvesPRONsoADVthisPRONtheyPRONatSCONJonceADVdidVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_6 pleasemark
4nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg6 pleasensubj
5wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 pleaseaux
6pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf2 repliedccomp
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 betternmod:poss
8bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp6 pleasexcomp
9,,PUNCT_14 seemedpunct
10butbutCCONJ_14 seemedcc
11thatthatSCONJ_14 seemedmark
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 daughternmod:poss
13daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing14 seemednsubj
14seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 repliedparataxis
15sosoADV_16 unwillingadvmod
16unwillingunwillingADJDegree=Pos14 seemedxcomp
17totoPART_18 marrymark
18marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf16 unwillingxcomp
19,,PUNCT_22 recommendedpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 recommendedcc
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 recommendednsubj
22recommendedrecommendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 repliedconj
23themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 recommendedobj
24totoPART_25 gomark
25gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf22 recommendedxcomp
26andandCCONJ_27 talkcc
27talktalkVERBVerbForm=Inf25 goconj
28totoADP_30 Princesscase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Princessdet
30PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing27 talkobl
31aboutaboutADP_32 itcase
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 Princessnmod
33themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes22 recommendedobl
34sosoADV_39 didadvmod
35thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem39 didnsubj
36theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs39 didnsubj
37atatSCONJ_39 didmark
38onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult39 didadvmod
39diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 recommendedadvcl
40..PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastqueenvn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2pleasewouldnothinggood propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3seempastqueen's daughterunwilling propertyvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4marryto-infinitivequeen's daughter not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5recommendpastqueenmatters = mattermatters = matter obltree rules
6goto-infinitivequeen not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7talkinfinitivequeen not said hereto the Princess about kingdomvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent
8dopastthisonce propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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