The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 32

Then the Queen told him all the fairies had foreseen for Rosette, and asked what she should do, and the hermit answered that she must shut the Princess up in a tower and never let her come out of it again.

Who acts: Queen, fairies, hermit · What happens: tell, have, ask, do, answer, shut up · To what, where: hermit, Princess, tower, Queen · 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 (Queen, fairies, hermit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fairies	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
10	foreseen	foreseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 Rosette	case
12	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 foreseen	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 answered	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hermit	det
23	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answered	nsubj
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 shut	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shut	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 shut	aux
28	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 answered	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 shut	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	28 shut	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 tower	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tower	det
34	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shut	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 let	advmod
37	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 come	obl
43	again	again	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen		hermit		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	all fairies					foreseen property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	the Queen not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	should	Queen						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	answer speech: assert	past	the hermit						tree rules
6	shut up	must	Queen	the Princess		a tower			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
7	not let	infinitive	the Queen not said here	Queen					tree rules
8	come out	infinitive	Queen not said here				again	of tower; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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