The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 48

Then the nurse and all the others cried harder than ever, and said everything they could think of to turn the Princess from her idea.

Who acts: nurse, King · What happens: cry, say, think, turn · To what, where: everything, Princess, idea · 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, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 others	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 others	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nurse	conj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 cried	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 harder	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 said	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 think	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 turn	mark
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 think	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 idea	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 idea	nmod:poss
26	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the nurse and all others			then	hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the nurse and all others not said here	everything				tree rules
3	think speech: other	could	King					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	turn	to-infinitive		the Princess	Princess's idea			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from idea=Trajectory

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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