The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 134

However, at last the nurse persuaded him to help her, and when the night came and the Princess was fast asleep as usual, with Frisk curled up on his own cushion at the foot of her bed, the wicked nurse fetched the boatman and her daughter, and between them they picked up the Princess, feather bed, mattress, pillows, blankets and all, and threw her into the sea, without even waking her.

Who acts: night, Princess, Frisk · What happens: persuade, help, come, be, curl up, fetch · To what, where: nurse, last nurse, boatman, Frisk, own cushion, Princess

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 (night, Princess, Frisk), 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	However	however	ADV	_	7 persuaded	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 nurse	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 persuaded	obl
7	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 persuaded	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 persuaded	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 persuaded	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asleep	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Princess	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 asleep	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 asleep	advmod
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 usual	case
25	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 asleep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Frisk	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 Frisk	case
28	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fetched	nsubj
29	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 Frisk	acl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 curled	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 cushion	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cushion	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cushion	amod
34	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 curled	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 foot	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 foot	det
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 curled	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 bed	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 bed	nmod:poss
40	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foot	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 nurse	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 nurse	det
43	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 nurse	amod
44	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fetched	nsubj
45	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	parataxis
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 boatman	det
47	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fetched	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 daughter	cc
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 daughter	nmod:poss
50	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 boatman	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 picked	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 picked	cc
53	between	between	ADP	_	54 them	case
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 picked	obl
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 picked	nsubj
56	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 persuaded	conj
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 picked	compound:prt
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Princess	det
59	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 picked	obj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 bed	punct
61	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 bed	compound
62	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 Princess	appos
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 mattress	punct
64	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 picked	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 pillows	punct
66	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 mattress	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 blankets	punct
68	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 pillows	conj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 all	cc
70	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	66 pillows	conj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 threw	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 threw	cc
73	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 persuaded	parataxis
74	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 threw	obj
75	into	into	ADP	_	77 sea	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 sea	det
77	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 threw	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 waking	punct
79	without	without	SCONJ	_	81 waking	mark
80	even	even	ADV	_	81 waking	advmod
81	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	73 threw	advcl
82	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 waking	obj
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past		nurse		the last nurse	however property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive			boatman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	come	past	the night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the Princess				as usual; asleep, fast property	tree rules
5	curl up	participle		Frisk not said here		Frisk's own cushion	at the foot of boatman's bed	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	past	Frisk	the boatman and boatman's daughter				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Theme
7	pick up	past	Princess	the Princess			between Princess; mattress and pillows and blankets obl	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
8	throw	past		boatman			into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into sea=Result
9	wake	gerund		boatman				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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