The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 46

So she declared that she would starve herself to death if they did not find some means of letting her see Fanfaronade’s grand entry into the town.

Who acts: Princess, guards, some, Fanfaronade · What happens: declare, starve, not find, mean, let, see · To what, where: Princess, grand entry, town · 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, guards, some, Fanfaronade), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 declared	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 declared	nsubj
3	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 starve	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 starve	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 starve	aux
7	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 declared	ccomp
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 starve	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 starve	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 find	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 starve	advcl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 find	ccomp
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 letting	mark
19	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 means	ccomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 letting	obj
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 letting	xcomp
22	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 entry	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Fanfaronade	case
24	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 entry	amod
25	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 town	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 town	det
28	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	Princess				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	starve	would	Princess	Princess		to death	tree rules
3	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	guards = guard				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	present	some				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	gerund		Princess			tree rules
6	see	infinitive	Princess not said here	Fanfaronade's grand entry	the town		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer entry=Stimulus
7	enter		Fanfaronade				nom entry «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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