The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 7

As soon as this message reached the fleet, every preparation was made for war, and the noise was so great that it reached the ears of the Princess, who at once flew to protect her lover.

Who acts: message, noise, ears · What happens: reach, make, be, fly, protect · To what, where: fleet, preparation, ears, lover

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (message, noise, ears), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 reached	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fleet	det
8	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 preparation	det
11	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reached	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 war	case
15	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 great	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 great	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 noise	det
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 great	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 great	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 great	advmod
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reached	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 reached	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 great	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ears	det
27	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reached	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ears	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flew	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 flew	nsubj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 flew	obl
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ears	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 protect	mark
37	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 flew	xcomp
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 lover	nmod:poss
39	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 protect	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	this message	the fleet	soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme
2	make	past · passive		every preparation	for war	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for war=Asset
3	is	past	the noise		great property	tree rules
4	reach	past	noise	the ears of the Princess		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
5	fly	past	the ears of the Princess			tree rules
6	protect	to-infinitive	the ears of the Princess not said here	message's lover		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Beneficiary

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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