The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 38

They had caused the Princess’s portrait to be painted and sent to all the neighbouring Courts, for in four days she would have completed her twentieth year, and it was time to decide whom she should marry.

Who acts: Princess, portrait · What happens: cause, paint, send, complete, be, decide · To what, where: King, neighbouring Courts, time · 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 (Princess, portrait), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 portrait	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Princess	case
7	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 painted	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 painted	aux:pass
10	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 caused	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 painted	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 Courts	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Courts	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Courts	det
16	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Courts	compound
17	Courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 days	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 days	case
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 days	nummod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sent	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 completed	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 completed	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 completed	aux
26	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 painted	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 year	nmod:poss
28	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 year	amod
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 completed	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 time	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 time	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 time	cop
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 decide	mark
36	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 time	acl
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 marry	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 marry	aux
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 decide	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cause	past · perfect · passive		King			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme portrait=Eventuality
2	paint	to-infinitive · passive					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»
3	send	participle			all neighbouring Courts	day	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to court=Destination
4	complete	would · perfect	Princess			year	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	portrait	time			tree rules
6	decide	to-infinitive					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	marry	should	Princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
8	portray		the Princess				nom portrait «communication 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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