The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 110

After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls among them, and left her brother’s kingdom to the care of the wisest old men of the city, telling them to take charge of everything, not to spend any money, but save it all up until the King should return, and above all, not to forget to feed her peacock.

Who acts: Rosette, King, wisest old men · What happens: have, entertain, distribute, leave, tell, take · To what, where: friends, dolls, kingdom, care, charge, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, King, wisest old men), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 having	mark
2	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 distributed	advcl
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 entertained	advmod
4	entertained	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 having	ccomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 entertained	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 having	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 distributed	nsubj
9	distributed	distribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dolls	nmod:poss
11	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 distributed	obj
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 distributed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 distributed	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kingdom	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 brother	case
20	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 care	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 care	det
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
26	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 men	amod
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 care	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 men	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 telling	punct
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 left	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 telling	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 take	mark
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 telling	xcomp
37	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 everything	case
39	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 take	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 spend	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 spend	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 spend	mark
43	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 take	conj
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 money	det
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spend	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 save	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 save	cc
48	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 distributed	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 save	obj
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 it	det
51	up	up	ADP	_	48 save	compound:prt
52	until	until	SCONJ	_	56 return	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 King	det
54	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 return	nsubj
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 return	aux
56	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 save	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 forget	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 forget	cc
59	above	above	ADP	_	60 all	case
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 forget	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 all	punct
62	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	64 forget	advmod
63	to	to	PART	_	64 forget	mark
64	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 distributed	conj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 feed	mark
66	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 forget	xcomp
67	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 peacock	nmod:poss
68	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 feed	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 distributed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Rosette not said here					tree rules
2	entertain	past	Rosette not said here	Rosette's friends			thus property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
3	distribute	past	Rosette	Rosette's dolls			among dolls = doll	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doll=Theme among they=Recipient
4	leave	past	Rosette not said here	Rosette's brother's kingdom	the care of the wisest old men of the city			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to care=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	Rosette not said here		friends = friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rosette not said here	charge			of everything	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent charge=Theme of everything=Initial_Location
7	not spend	to-infinitive	Rosette not said here	any money				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
8	save up	infinitive	Rosette not said here	money				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
9	return	should	the King					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not forget	to-infinitive	Rosette not said here			all		tree rules
11	feed	to-infinitive	Rosette not said here	Rosette's peacock				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Recipient
12	care		the wisest old men of the city					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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