The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 53

At this the nurse came forward, and, falling on her knees, confessed how they had made the little needle-hole in the tower, and how the Princess had declared when she saw the Ambassador that she would marry him and nobody else.

Who acts: Mayblossom, Princess · What happens: come forward, fall, confess, make, declare, see · To what, where: nurse, knees, little needle hole, tower, Ambassador

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 (Mayblossom, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 nurse	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nurse	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 falling	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 knees	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 knees	nmod:poss
13	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 confessed	punct
15	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 made	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 confessed	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hole	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hole	amod
22	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hole	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 needle	punct
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 tower	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tower	det
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hole	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 declared	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 declared	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 declared	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Princess	det
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 declared	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 declared	aux
34	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 came	conj
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 saw	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 saw	nsubj
37	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 declared	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Ambassador	det
39	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 saw	obj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 marry	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 marry	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 marry	aux
43	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 saw	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 marry	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 nobody	cc
46	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 him	conj
47	else	else	ADV	_	46 nobody	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come forward	past			this nurse	forward property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nurse=Location
2	fall	gerund			nurse's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	confess	past					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · perfect	Mayblossom	the little needle hole	the tower		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5	declare speech: other	past · perfect	the Princess				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	Princess	the Ambassador			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ambassador=Stimulus
7	marry	would	Princess	Ambassador			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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