The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 4

This was accordingly done, and the nurses, after they had made their curtsey to the King and Queen, ranged themselves in a line before her that she might choose.

Who acts: children, Queen · What happens: do, make, range, choose, curtsey · To what, where: This, curtsey, children, line

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 (children, Queen), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
3	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nurses	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nurses	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nurses	det
8	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 curtsey	nmod:poss
15	curtsey	curtsey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 curtsey	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Queen	cc
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 King	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ranged	punct
22	ranged	range	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	advcl
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 ranged	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 line	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 line	det
26	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ranged	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ranged	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 choose	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 choose	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 choose	aux
32	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ranged	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		This			the nurses obl; accordingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	make	past · perfect	children = child	children's curtsey			to the King and Queen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset curtsey=Product
3	range	past		children = child	a line	before Queen		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
4	choose	might	Queen					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	curtsey		children = child				to the King and Queen	nom curtsey «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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