The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 91

In fact, there was no end to them; the Princess’s arms ached with tearing them down, and yet she was no nearer to getting out, and the wicked Enchanter behind her laughed maliciously.

Who acts: end, arms, Princess, wicked Enchanter · What happens: be, ache, tear down, get out, laugh · To what, where: fact, arms

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 (end, arms, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 end	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ached	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 arms	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Princess	case
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ached	nsubj
15	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 was	parataxis
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 tearing	mark
17	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ached	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tearing	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 tearing	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nearer	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nearer	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 nearer	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nearer	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nearer	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 nearer	det
26	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 ached	parataxis
27	to	to	SCONJ	_	28 getting	mark
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 nearer	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 getting	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 laughed	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Enchanter	det
33	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Enchanter	amod
34	Enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 laughed	nsubj
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 Enchanter	nmod
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ached	conj
38	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	_	37 laughed	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no end to snakes		fact; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location
2	ache	past	the Princess's arms					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tear down	gerund	the Princess's arms not said here	arms = arm				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme
4	is	past	Princess			yet	near property	tree rules
5	get out	gerund	Princess not said here					vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	laugh	past	the wicked Enchanter behind Princess				maliciously property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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