The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 33

The Princess’s nurse, who had never left her, sometimes told her about the world outside the tower, and though the Princess had never seen anything for herself, yet she always understood exactly, thanks to the second Fairy’s gift.

Who acts: nurse, Princess, second Fairy · What happens: not leave, tell, not see, understand, gift · To what, where: nurse, Princess, anything, thanks · 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, Princess, second Fairy), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nurse	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 left	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 left	advmod
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nurse	acl:relcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nurse	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
18	outside	outside	ADP	_	20 tower	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tower	det
20	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 world	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 seen	advmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	ccomp
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 seen	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 herself	case
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 anything	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 understood	punct
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	36 understood	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 understood	nsubj
35	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 understood	advmod
36	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
37	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	36 understood	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thanks	punct
39	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 understood	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	45 gift	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Fairy	det
42	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	43 Fairy	amod
43	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 gift	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 Fairy	case
45	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thanks	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not leave	past · perfect · passive		the Princess's nurse			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess's nurse		Princess	about the world outside the tower; sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not see	past · perfect	the Princess	anything		for Princess	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	understand	past	Princess	thanks to the second Fairy's gift		always, exactly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	gift		the second Fairy				nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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