The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 124

Then the poor Princess told her all that happened to her, and added ‘I shall always be thankful to Heaven for leading me hither, and grateful to you that you took pity on me and on my baby, and did not leave us to die.

Who acts: poor Princess, that, I, you, us · What happens: tell, happen, add, be, lead, take · To what, where: mother, Princess, Heaven, me, pity, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Princess, that, I, you), 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	5 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Princess	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Princess	amod
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 happened	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 added	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 added	cc
14	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 thankful	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thankful	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thankful	aux
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 thankful	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thankful	cop
20	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 added	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Heaven	case
22	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 thankful	obl
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 leading	mark
24	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thankful	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 leading	obj
26	hither	hither	ADV	_	24 leading	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grateful	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grateful	cc
29	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 grateful	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 took	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grateful	advcl
35	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 took	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 baby	cc
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 baby	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 baby	nmod:poss
41	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 took	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 leave	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 leave	cc
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 leave	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 leave	advmod
46	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	conj
47	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 leave	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 die	mark
49	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 leave	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the poor Princess		mother	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past	that		Princess			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	add speech: assert	past	the poor Princess not said here					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is	shall	I		Heaven		always, thankful property	tree rules
5	lead	gerund	I not said here	me			hither property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	take	past	you	pity			on me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on i=Destination
7	not leave	past · do-support	the poor Princess not said here	us				tree rules
8	die	to-infinitive	us not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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