The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 115

Accordingly envoys were sent to bring back an exact report of the princess’s looks and ways, and they returned saying that she was tall and well made, but so very light that the equerries who accompanied her in her walks had to be always watching her, lest she should suddenly be blown away.

Who acts: envoys, Diaphana, equerries · What happens: send, bring back, return, say, be, make · To what, where: envoys, exact report, Diaphana, walks, light, looks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (envoys, Diaphana, equerries), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	2 envoys	advmod
2	envoys	envoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 report	det
9	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 report	amod
10	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 looks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looks	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 princess	case
15	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 report	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ways	cc
17	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 looks	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 returned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 returned	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 returned	nsubj
21	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 returned	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 tall	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tall	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tall	cop
26	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 saying	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 made	advmod
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tall	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 light	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 light	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 light	advmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 light	advmod
34	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	parataxis
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 had	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 equerries	det
37	equerries	equerry	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 had	nsubj
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 accompanied	nsubj
39	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 equerries	acl:relcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 accompanied	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 walks	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 walks	nmod:poss
43	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 accompanied	obl
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 light	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	48 watching	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 watching	aux
47	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	48 watching	advmod
48	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 had	advcl
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 watching	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 blown	punct
51	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	56 blown	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 blown	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 blown	aux
54	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	56 blown	advmod
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 blown	aux:pass
56	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 had	conj
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 blown	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		envoys			tree rules
2	bring back	to-infinitive	envoys not said here	a exact report of the princess's looks and ways			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent report=Theme
3	return	past	envoys = envoy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	envoys = envoy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Diaphana			tall property	tree rules
6	make	participle	Diaphana not said here			well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	accompany	past	the equerries	Diaphana	Diaphana's walks		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in walk=Destination
8	have	past	the equerries	light			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
9	watch	to-infinitive · progressive	the equerries not said here	Diaphana		always property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
10	blow away	should · passive		Diaphana		away, suddenly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
11	report			the princess's looks and ways			nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient
12	walk		Diaphana				nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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 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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