The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 131

‘Well,’ said the nurse, ‘to-night, when the Princess is asleep, you must help me to throw her into the sea, and when she is drowned I will put her beautiful clothes upon my daughter, and we will take her to the King of the Peacocks, who will be only too glad to marry her, and as your reward you shall have your boat full of diamonds.’

Who acts: Princess, you, me, I, we, Peacocks · What happens: say, be, help, throw, drown, put · To what, where: nurse, me, boatman, sea, King, boat · 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 (Princess, you, me, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 to	punct
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asleep	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 asleep	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asleep	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 asleep	cop
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asleep	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 throw	mark
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 throw	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drowned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 drowned	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 drowned	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 drowned	nsubj:pass
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 drowned	aux:pass
35	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 put	aux
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 drowned	parataxis
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	obj
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 clothes	amod
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	38 put	obj
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 daughter	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 daughter	nmod:poss
44	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 take	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 take	cc
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 take	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 take	aux
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 King	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 King	det
53	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 take	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Peacocks	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Peacocks	det
56	Peacocks	Peacock	PROPN	Number=Plur	49 take	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 glad	punct
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 glad	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 glad	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 glad	cop
61	only	only	ADV	_	63 glad	advmod
62	too	too	ADV	_	63 glad	advmod
63	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Peacocks	conj
64	to	to	PART	_	65 marry	mark
65	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 glad	xcomp
66	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 marry	obj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 have	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 have	cc
69	as	as	ADP	_	71 reward	case
70	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 reward	nmod:poss
71	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 have	obl
72	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	74 have	nsubj
73	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 have	aux
74	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 take	conj
75	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 boat	nmod:poss
76	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 have	obj
77	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 have	xcomp
78	of	of	ADP	_	79 diamonds	case
79	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 full	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
81	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the nurse		night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nurse=Topic
2	is	present	the Princess				asleep property	tree rules
3	help	must	you	me				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	throw	to-infinitive	me not said here	boatman			into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into sea=Result
5	drown	present · passive		boatman				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	put	future	I	boatman			upon my daughter	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Asset clothes=Goal
7	take	future	we	boatman	the King		of the Peacocks	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to king=Destination of peacock=Initial_Location
8	is	future	the Peacocks				glad property	tree rules
9	marry	to-infinitive	the Peacocks not said here	boatman				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
10	have	shall	you	your boat			as your reward; full property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
11	reward		your					nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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