The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 255

Messengers were sent to bring the Princes out of prison, and they came very sadly, believing that they were to be executed at once: the nurse and her daughter and the boatman were brought also.

Who acts: Messengers · What happens: send, bring, come, believe, execute · To what, where: Messengers, Princes, prison, nurse · 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 (Messengers), 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	Messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princes	det
7	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 prison	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 prison	case
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 sadly	advmod
16	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 believing	punct
18	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 executed	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 executed	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 executed	aux:pass
22	to	to	PART	_	24 executed	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 executed	aux:pass
24	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 believing	ccomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 executed	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 nurse	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nurse	det
29	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	nsubj:pass
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 daughter	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 daughter	nmod:poss
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nurse	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 boatman	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boatman	det
35	boatman	boatman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nurse	conj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	aux:pass
37	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	conj
38	also	also	ADV	_	37 brought	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		Messengers			tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	Messengers not said here	the Princes	prison		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
3	come	past	Messengers = messenger			sadly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	believe	gerund	Messengers = messenger not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	execute	past · passive		Messengers = messenger			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	bring	past · passive		the nurse and sister's daughter and the boatman			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme

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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