The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 28

When they were going away the oldest Fairy said that they were of opinion that it would be best to shut the Princess up in some place, with her waiting-women, so that she might not see anyone else until she was twenty years old.

Who acts: gifts, it, Princess · What happens: go away, say, be, shut, not see · To what, where: oldest Fairy, Princess, place, anyone · 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 (gifts, it, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 going	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 Fairy	amod
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 opinion	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 opinion	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 opinion	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 opinion	case
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 best	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 best	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 best	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 best	cop
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 opinion	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 shut	mark
21	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 best	csubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shut	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 Princess	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shut	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 women	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	33 women	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 women	nmod:poss
31	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 women	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 waiting	punct
33	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shut	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 see	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 see	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 see	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 see	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 see	advmod
40	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shut	conj
41	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 see	obj
42	else	else	ADV	_	41 anyone	advmod
43	until	until	SCONJ	_	48 old	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 old	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 old	cop
46	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 years	nummod
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 old	obl:unmarked
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 see	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past · progressive	gifts = gift	the oldest Fairy			away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fairy=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	gifts = gift				of opinion	tree rules
4	is	would	it				good property	tree rules
5	shut	to-infinitive		the Princess	some place		with Princess's waiting women	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent princess=Patient with woman=Instrument
6	not see	might	Princess	anyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus
7	is	past	Princess			year	old property	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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