The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 109

Presently she heard him say: ‘Search under the bush Princess; you will find some sugar, almonds, and some tarts there But don’t be silly enough to offer Fanfaronade any.’

Who acts: nightingale, King, you · What happens: hear, say, search, find, not be, offer · To what, where: King, sugar, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (nightingale, King, you), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Search	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Search	punct
8	Search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	compound
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Search	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 sugar	det
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 almonds	punct
20	almonds	almond	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sugar	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 there	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 there	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 tarts	det
24	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 there	nsubj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heard	advmod
26	But	but	CCONJ	_	30 silly	cc
27	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 silly	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 silly	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 silly	cop
30	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 there	conj
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 silly	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 offer	mark
33	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 silly	advcl
34	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 any	nsubj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 offer	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	nightingale	King	there	presently property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	search	infinitive	King not said here			under the bush Princess	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under princess=Location
4	find	future	you	some sugar and almonds			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Topic
5	not is	infinitive · do-support	nightingale not said here			enough, silly property	tree rules
6	offer	to-infinitive	nightingale not said here	any			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=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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