The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 25

So they thought and thought, but they could not tell what to do, until at last the Queen heard that in a great forest near the castle there was an old hermit, who lived in a hollow tree, and that people came from far and near to consult him; so she said:

Who acts: sons, last, old hermit, people, Queen · What happens: think, not tell, do, hear, live, come · To what, where: hollow tree, hermit · 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 (sons, last, old hermit, people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thought	cc
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 do	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 heard	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heard	nsubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 last	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 forest	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 forest	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 forest	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 forest	amod
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	ccomp
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 castle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forest	nmod
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 castle	acl:relcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hermit	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hermit	amod
34	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lived	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 lived	nsubj
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hermit	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 tree	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tree	det
40	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tree	amod
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lived	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 came	cc
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 came	mark
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 came	nsubj
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lived	conj
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 far	case
48	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 came	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 near	cc
50	near	near	ADV	_	48 far	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 consult	mark
52	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 came	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 consult	obj
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct
55	so	so	ADV	_	57 said	advmod
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 said	nsubj
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sons = son				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	sons = son not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert	could	sons = son				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	hear	past	last				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	live	past	a old hermit		a hollow tree		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
7	come	past	people			far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	consult	to-infinitive	people not said here	hermit			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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