The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 80

But the turtle, who had talked so much of him to the princess that she had expressed a wish to see him, went at once to make known his arrival.

Who acts: turtle, princess, maid · What happens: talk, express, see, go, make, know · To what, where: much, wish, maid, arrival

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (turtle, princess, maid), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 turtle	det
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talked	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 talked	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talked	aux
7	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 turtle	acl:relcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talked	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 much	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talked	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 expressed	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 expressed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 expressed	aux
18	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 princess	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wish	det
20	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 expressed	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wish	acl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 went	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	advcl
30	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 make	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arrival	nmod:poss
32	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 known	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past · perfect	the turtle	much of maid	to the princess	tree rules
2	express	past · perfect	princess	a wish		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	princess not said here	maid		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	go	past	the turtle			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	make	to-infinitive	the turtle not said here			tree rules
6	know	participle	the turtle not said here	maid's arrival		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer arrival=Stimulus
7	arrive		maid			nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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