The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 2

A herald was sent who blew a trumpet at every street corner, and commanded all the best nurses to appear before the Queen, that she might choose one for the little Princess.

Who acts: nurse · What happens: send, blow, command, appear, choose · To what, where: herald, trumpet, street corner, best nurses, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 herald	det
2	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 blew	nsubj
6	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trumpet	det
8	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 corner	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 corner	det
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	compound
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 commanded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 commanded	cc
15	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 nurses	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nurses	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 nurses	amod
19	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 commanded	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 appear	mark
21	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 commanded	advcl
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 Queen	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Queen	det
24	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 appear	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 choose	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 choose	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 choose	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 choose	aux
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 appear	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 choose	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 Princess	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Princess	amod
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 choose	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		a herald				tree rules
2	blow	past		a trumpet	every street corner			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient
3	command	past		all best nurses				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent nurse=Eventuality
4	appear	to-infinitive				before the Queen		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before queen=Location
5	choose	might	nurse	one			for the little Princess	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for princess=Beneficiary

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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