The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 242

He carried his basket to the Princess, who at once sent him back to the pantry to bring all the tarts and sugar plums that had been prepared for the King’s supper.

Who acts: Frisk · What happens: carry, send back, bring, prepare · To what, where: basket, Princess, Frisk, pantry, tarts

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 basket	nmod:poss
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Princess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sent	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 sent	obl
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 pantry	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pantry	det
17	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bring	mark
19	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 tarts	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tarts	det
22	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 plums	cc
24	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plums	compound
25	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tarts	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prepared	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 prepared	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 prepared	aux:pass
29	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tarts	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 supper	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 supper	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 King	case
34	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prepared	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Frisk	Frisk's basket	the Princess			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to princess=Destination
2	send back	past		Frisk		the pantry		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to pantry=Destination
3	bring	to-infinitive		all tarts and sugar plums				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tart=Theme
4	prepare	past · perfect · passive		all tarts and sugar plums			for the King's supper	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for supper=Beneficiary

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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