The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 93

Now Minon-Minette had been kept informed by Aveline of the prince’s adventures, and when she heard of the way in which he had been treated by the Iron King she became furious, and began to prepare for war.

Who acts: Minon, Aveline, Iron King, prince · What happens: keep, inform, hear, treat, become, begin · To what, where: Minon, thread, way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minon, Aveline, Iron King, prince), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Minon	advmod
2	Minon	Minon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj:pass
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Minette	punct
4	Minette	Minette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Minon	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 kept	aux:pass
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 kept	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 Aveline	case
10	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 informed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 adventures	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adventures	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 prince	case
15	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Aveline	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 heard	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 became	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 treated	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 treated	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 treated	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 treated	aux:pass
29	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 way	acl:relcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 King	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
32	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 King	compound
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 treated	obl
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	parataxis
36	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 became	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 became	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 prepare	mark
41	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 war	case
43	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 prepare	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past · perfect · passive		Minon and Minette			tree rules
2	inform speech: other	participle	Minon and Minette not said here			by Aveline of the prince's adventures	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Aveline			of the way	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of way=Stimulus
4	treat	past · perfect · passive	the Iron King	thread	the way		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
5	become	past	Aveline			furious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	begin	past	Aveline not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	prepare	to-infinitive	Aveline not said here			for war	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for war=Beneficiary
8	adventure		the prince				nom adventure «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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