The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 93

Then the woman desired them to tell the queen that there stood at the palace gate one who would help her secret sorrow.

Who acts: woman, queen, one · What happens: desire, tell, stand, help, sorrow · To what, where: servants, queen, palace gate, secret sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, queen, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 desired	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desired	nsubj
4	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 desired	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 desired	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stood	nsubj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stood	advmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 queen	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gate	compound
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 help	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 help	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 help	aux
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stood	ccomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sorrow	nmod:poss
22	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sorrow	amod
23	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 help	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	desire	past	the woman	servants = servant			then	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the woman not said here		the queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
3	stand	past	the queen			the palace gate; there		tree rules
4	help	would	one	woman's secret sorrow				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Beneficiary
5	sorrow		woman					nom sorrow «feeling 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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