The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 7

And when they had entered he told her that he was a great lord, and that never had he seen a maiden so beautiful as she, and that if she would give him her heart they would be married and live happy for ever after.

Who acts: hands, man, girl · What happens: enter, tell, be, see, give, marry · To what, where: girl, great lord, maiden, heart, man, hands · 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 (hands, man, girl), 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	_	7 told	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 entered	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 entered	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 entered	aux
5	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lord	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lord	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lord	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lord	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lord	amod
14	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seen	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 maiden	det
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seen	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 she	case
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beautiful	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 married	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 married	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 married	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 give	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 married	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 heart	nmod:poss
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 married	nsubj:pass
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 married	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 married	aux:pass
41	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	ccomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 live	cc
43	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 married	conj
44	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 live	xcomp
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 ever	case
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 after	advmod
47	after	after	ADV	_	43 live	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past · perfect	hands = hand				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	man		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a	past	man	a great lord			tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	man	a maiden		beautiful property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	girl	girl's heart	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient heart=Theme
6	marry	would · passive		hands = hand			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	live	infinitive				after, happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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