The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 16

The Princess Cabbage-Stalk was immensely astonished at this unjust proceeding, and sent many messages of remonstrance to King Grumpy, but he was in such a temper that no one dared to deliver them, or to send the letters which the Princess wrote to her father.

Who acts: King, one, Princess · What happens: astonish, send, be, dare, deliver, write · To what, where: Princess Cabbage, unjust proceeding, many messages, temper, messages, letters

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one, 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	3 Cabbage	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cabbage	compound
3	Cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 astonished	nsubj:pass
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Stalk	punct
5	Stalk	Stalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cabbage	appos
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 astonished	aux:pass
7	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	8 astonished	advmod
8	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 proceeding	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 proceeding	det
11	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 proceeding	amod
12	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 astonished	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sent	cc
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 astonished	conj
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 messages	amod
17	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sent	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 remonstrance	case
19	remonstrance	remonstrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 messages	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Grumpy	case
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Grumpy	nmod:desc
22	Grumpy	Grumpy	PROPN	_	19 remonstrance	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 temper	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 temper	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 temper	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 temper	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 temper	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 temper	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 temper	det
30	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 dared	obj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dared	nsubj
34	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 temper	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 deliver	mark
36	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 dared	xcomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 deliver	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 send	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 send	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 send	mark
41	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 deliver	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 letters	det
43	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 send	obj
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 wrote	obj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Princess	det
46	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 wrote	nsubj
47	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 letters	acl:relcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 father	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 father	nmod:poss
50	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wrote	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	astonish	past · passive		the Princess Cabbage		this unjust proceeding	immensely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	send	past		many messages of remonstrance to Grumpy King				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
3	is	past	King			such temper		tree rules
4	dare	past	no one	such temper				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic
5	deliver	to-infinitive	no one not said here	messages = message				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	send	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the letters				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
7	write	past	the Princess	the letters	Princess's father			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to father=Recipient

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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