The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 112

When they were safe from view she let the young man out, and he returned to the king and told him that he wished to find the princess.

Who acts: Master, woman, man, king · What happens: be, let out, return, tell, wish, find · To what, where: young man, view, king, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, woman, man, king), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 safe	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 safe	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 view	case
6	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 returned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 returned	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 returned	nsubj
16	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returned	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 wished	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wished	nsubj
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wished	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Master				safe property	tree rules
2	let out	past	woman	the young man		view		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	return	past	man				to the king result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	woman not said here		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wish	past	king					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	the princess				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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