The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 20

Of all the fairies the Queen knew, only five were able to come on the day appointed, but they began immediately to bestow gifts upon the Princess.

Who acts: Queen, five, day, presents · What happens: know, be, come, appoint, begin, bestow · To what, where: gifts · 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 (Queen, five, day, presents), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 fairies	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fairies	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 five	advmod
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 able	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knew	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 appointed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 appointed	nsubj
18	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	conj
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	22 began	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bestow	mark
25	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
26	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bestow	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 Princess	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bestow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Queen		of all fairies	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fairy=Stimulus
2	is	past	five		able property	tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	five not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appoint	past	the day			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	presents = present		immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bestow	to-infinitive	presents = present not said here	gifts	upon the Princess	tree rules

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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