The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 88

The Prince and Princess thanked her with all their hearts, and declared that to her they owed all their happiness, and then the two Princesses, who had so lately been Mice, came and begged that the Fairy would use her power to release their unhappy friends who were still under the Enchanter’s spell.

Who acts: Prince, splendour, two Princesses, Fairy, unhappy friends · What happens: thank, declare, owe, have, be, come · To what, where: two Princesses, Princess, that, happiness, Mice, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, splendour, two Princesses, Fairy), 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	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thanked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Princess	cc
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	conj
5	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thanked	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 hearts	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hearts	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hearts	nmod:poss
10	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thanked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thanked	conj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 declared	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 declared	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 owed	nsubj
18	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 declared	parataxis
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 happiness	det:predet
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 happiness	nmod:poss
21	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 owed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Princesses	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Princesses	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 Princesses	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princesses	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Princesses	nummod
27	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 thanked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Princesses	appos
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 Mice	advmod
32	lately	lately	ADV	_	34 Mice	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 Mice	cop
34	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 had	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 begged	cc
38	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 use	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Fairy	det
41	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 use	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 use	aux
43	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 begged	ccomp
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 power	nmod:poss
45	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 use	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 release	mark
47	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 use	advcl
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 friends	nmod:poss
49	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 friends	amod
50	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 release	obj
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 spell	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 spell	cop
53	still	still	ADV	_	58 spell	advmod
54	under	under	ADP	_	58 spell	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Enchanter	det
56	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 spell	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 Enchanter	case
58	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 friends	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the Prince and Princess	the two Princesses	Princess			with splendour's hearts	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the Prince and Princess not said here	that	Princess				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to she=Recipient
3	owe	past	splendour	splendour's happiness					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme
4	have	past	the two Princesses						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	participle		Mice				lately property	tree rules
6	come	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	beg speech: request	past							vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	use	would	the Fairy	Princess's power					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
9	release	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here	splendour's unhappy friends					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer friend=Source
10	is	past	splendour's unhappy friends			the Enchanter's spell	still		tree rules

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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