The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 40

The nurse, who kept the Princess informed of everything that went forward in the town, did not fail to repeat the news that so nearly concerned her, and gave such a description of the splendour in which the ambassador Fanfaronade would enter the town, that the Princess was wild to see the procession for herself.

Who acts: nurse, ambassador, Princess · What happens: keep, inform, go, not fail, repeat, concern · To what, where: Princess, town, news, description, splendour, procession

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, ambassador, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Princess	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 informed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 everything	acl:relcl
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fail	punct
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fail	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fail	advmod
20	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 repeat	mark
22	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fail	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 news	det
24	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 repeat	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 concerned	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 concerned	advmod
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	28 concerned	advmod
28	concerned	concern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 news	acl:relcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 concerned	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 description	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 description	det
35	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 splendour	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 splendour	det
38	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 description	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 enter	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ambassador	det
42	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 enter	nsubj
43	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 ambassador	appos
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 enter	aux
45	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 splendour	parataxis
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 town	det
47	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 enter	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 wild	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 wild	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Princess	det
51	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 wild	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 wild	cop
53	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gave	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 see	mark
55	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 wild	xcomp
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 procession	det
57	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 see	obj
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 herself	case
59	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 see	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the nurse	the Princess			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
2	inform speech: other	participle		the Princess not said here		of everything	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of everything=Topic
3	go	past			the town	forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location
4	not fail	past · do-support	the nurse not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	repeat	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here	the news			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Eventuality
6	concern	past		the news		nearly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer she=Result
7	give	past	the nurse not said here	such description of the splendour			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme
8	enter	would	the ambassador	the town	the splendour		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination
9	is	past	the Princess			wild property	tree rules
10	see	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here	the procession		for Princess	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus
11	describe			the splendour			nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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