The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 92

This the nurse had told her, for with her the queen had a talk now and again, but there was no one who had ever seen the princess.

Who acts: queen, one · What happens: tell, have, be, see · To what, where: nurse, queen, talk, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 nurse	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 her	case
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 talk	det
15	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 had	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 again	cc
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 now	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 seen	advmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 one	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		this nurse	queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
2	have	past	the queen	a talk			now	for daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient
3	be	past	no one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past · perfect	no one	the princess			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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