The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 92

And now that she was able to open her mouth and speak, she told the King why she had been dumb and not able to laugh.

Who acts: sister · What happens: be, open, speak, tell, not be, laugh · To what, where: mouth, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 able	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 able	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 able	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 open	mark
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
12	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 dumb	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dumb	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dumb	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 dumb	cop
22	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 told	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 able	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 able	advmod
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dumb	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 laugh	mark
27	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sister			now	able property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive	sister not said here	sister's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	speak speech: other	present	sister not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	sister		the King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5	is	past · perfect	sister				dumb property	tree rules
6	not be		sister not said here					tree rules
7	laugh	to-infinitive	sister not said here					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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