The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 54

‘From what one person and another have let fall,’ he exclaimed, ‘I have contrived to learn that he is in the palace of the king, who keeps him hidden lest anyone should see him; and that to-morrow he is to marry the princess, who, ugly creature that she is, has not been able to find any man to wed her.’

Who acts: damsel, I, king, anyone, that, princess · What happens: let, exclaim, contrive, learn, be, keep · To what, where: palace, damsel, ugly creature, man, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, I, king, anyone), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
2	From	from	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 exclaimed	obj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 person	nummod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fall	cc
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 fall	det
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
9	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fall	amod
10	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 exclaimed	nsubj
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 contrived	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 contrived	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 contrived	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 contrived	aux
19	contrived	contrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 exclaimed	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 learn	mark
21	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 contrived	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 palace	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 palace	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 palace	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learn	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 palace	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 keeps	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 keeps	nsubj
33	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 king	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keeps	obj
35	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 keeps	xcomp
36	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	39 see	mark
37	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 see	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 hidden	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 see	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 marry	cc
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 marry	nsubj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 morrow	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 to	punct
46	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 that	nmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 marry	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 marry	cop
49	to	to	PART	_	50 marry	mark
50	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 exclaimed	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 princess	det
52	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 marry	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 creature	punct
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 creature	nsubj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 creature	punct
56	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 creature	amod
57	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 princess	nmod
58	that	that	ADP	_	59 she	case
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 creature	nmod
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 creature	cop
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 able	punct
62	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 able	aux
63	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 able	advmod
64	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	65 able	cop
65	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 marry	conj
66	to	to	PART	_	67 find	mark
67	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 able	xcomp
68	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	69 man	det
69	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 find	obj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 wed	mark
71	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 man	acl
72	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 wed	obj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct
74	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	present · perfect					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	exclaim speech: express	past	damsel				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	contrive	present · perfect	I				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	learn	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	damsel		the palace	of the king	tree rules
6	keep	present	the king	damsel			tree rules
7	hide	participle	damsel not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	see	should	anyone	damsel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	is	present	that			marry property	tree rules
10	is a	present	the princess	ugly creature		that princess	tree rules
11	not is	present · perfect	that not said here			able property	tree rules
12	find	to-infinitive	that not said here	any man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
13	wed	to-infinitive	that not said here	princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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