The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 204

‘Alas!’ she said, ‘the King of the Peacocks must have ordered me to be thrown into the sea because he had changed his mind and did not want to marry me.

Who acts: fish, King, Frisk · What happens: say, order, throw, change, not want, marry · To what, where: King, me, sea, mind · 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 (fish, King, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 King	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 King	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ordered	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Peacocks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Peacocks	det
13	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ordered	obl
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ordered	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ordered	aux
16	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 thrown	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thrown	aux:pass
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ordered	xcomp
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	obl
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 changed	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 changed	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 changed	aux
27	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 thrown	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 want	cc
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 want	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 want	advmod
33	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 changed	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 want	xcomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 marry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	order	must · perfect		the King	me	of the Peacocks	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here			into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into sea=Result
4	change	past · perfect	Frisk	Frisk's mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	not want	past · do-support	Frisk not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here	me			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	mind		Frisk				nom mind «cognition 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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