The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 56

‘Princess,’ said he, ‘for two hundred years has a wicked enchanter kept me here.

Who acts: Princess, wicked enchanter · What happens: say, have, keep · To what, where: Prince, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Princess, wicked enchanter), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 he	conj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 enchanter	det
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enchanter	amod
16	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 has	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 kept	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 kept	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present · passive		Prince		tree rules
3	keep	past	a wicked enchanter	me	here	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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