The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 200

The Princess Lina did not become a gardener’s wife; on the contrary, it was the Star Gazer who became a Prince: but before the marriage ceremony the Princess insisted that her lover should tell her how he came to discover the secret.

Who acts: Princess Lina, choice, Star, Princess, lover · What happens: not become, be, become, insist, tell, come · To what, where: wife, Star, Lina, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Lina, choice, Star, Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lina	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lina	compound
3	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 become	advmod
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gardener	det
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 gardener	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 contrary	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 contrary	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contrary	det
14	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Star	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Star	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Star	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Star	det
19	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 contrary	conj
20	Gazer	Gazer	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Star	flat
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Star	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 insisted	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 insisted	cc
27	before	before	ADP	_	30 ceremony	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ceremony	det
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ceremony	compound
30	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 insisted	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 insisted	nsubj
33	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 tell	mark
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lover	nmod:poss
36	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tell	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	aux
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 insisted	ccomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tell	iobj
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 came	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tell	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 discover	mark
44	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 came	xcomp
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 secret	det
46	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 discover	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not become	past · do-support	the Princess Lina	a gardener's wife			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	choice	the Star			tree rules
3	become	past	the Star				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	insist speech: other	past	the Princess			before the marriage ceremony	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	should	Lina's lover		Lina		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	come	past	lover				tree rules
7	discover	to-infinitive	lover not said here	the secret			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

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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