The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 38

When the Princess presented herself at the door, and said that the Queen had ordered her to place the box in her own room, the governor laughed heartily at the idea.

Who acts: Princess, Queen, governor · What happens: present, say, order, laugh · To what, where: Princess, door, place, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Queen, governor), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 presented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 presented	nsubj
4	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 presented	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 presented	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 ordered	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ordered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ordered	aux
16	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ordered	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 place	case
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ordered	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 room	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 room	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 room	amod
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 box	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laughed	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 governor	det
28	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laughed	nsubj
29	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 box	conj
30	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	29 laughed	advmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 idea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 idea	det
33	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laughed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	present	past	the Princess	Princess		the door		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	order	past · perfect	the Queen	place	Princess			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary place=Theme
4	laugh	past	the governor			the idea	heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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