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The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 85

When he saw Rosette’s brothers he knew at once that they were strangers, and stopping his carriage he sent for them to speak to him.

Who acts: Prince, brothers · What happens: see, know, be, stop, send, speak · To what, where: brothers, strangers, carriage, Prince · 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 (Prince, brothers), 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

advmodnsubjadvclnmod:posscaseobjnsubjcaseoblmarknsubjcopadvclpunctccadvclnmod:possobjnsubjacl:relclcaseoblmarkadvclcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONsawVERBRosettePROPN’sPARTbrothersNOUNhePRONknewVERBatADPonceADVthatSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXstrangersNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstoppingVERBhisPRONcarriageNOUNhePRONsentVERBforADPthemPRONtoPARTspeakVERBtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 sawadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 knewadvcl
4RosetteRosettePROPNNumber=Sing6 brothersnmod:poss
5’s'sPART_4 Rosettecase
6brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur3 sawobj
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 knewnsubj
8knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9atatADP_10 oncecase
10onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult8 knewobl
11thatthatSCONJ_14 strangersmark
12theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 strangersnsubj
13werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 strangerscop
14strangersstrangerNOUNNumber=Plur8 knewadvcl
15,,PUNCT_17 stoppingpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 stoppingcc
17stoppingstopVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 knewadvcl
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 carriagenmod:poss
19carriagecarriageNOUNNumber=Sing17 stoppingobj
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sentnsubj
21sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 carriageacl:relcl
22forforADP_23 themcase
23themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sentobl
24totoPART_25 speakmark
25speakspeakVERBVerbForm=Inf21 sentadvcl
26totoADP_27 himcase
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 speakobl
28..PUNCT_8 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastPrinceRosette's brothersvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
2knowpastPrincevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3is apastbrothers = brotherstrangerstree rules
4stopgerundPrince not said herePrince's carriagevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality carriage=Eventuality
5sendpastPrincePrince's carriage not said herefor brothers = brothervn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme
6speak speech: otherto-infinitivePrince not said herePrincevn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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