The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 47

She also sent a message to the Prince’s attendants that they might travel slowly back to the Court of King Peridor, and that the beautiful bird had really been found.

Who acts: Serpentine, fairies · What happens: send, travel, find · To what, where: message, attendants, Court, beautiful bird

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Serpentine, fairies), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 attendants	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 attendants	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Prince	case
10	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 travel	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 travel	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 travel	aux
14	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 back	advmod
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 travel	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Court	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Court	det
19	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travel	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Peridor	case
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Peridor	compound
22	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Court	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 found	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bird	amod
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux
30	really	really	ADV	_	32 found	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	send	past	Serpentine	a message	the Prince's attendants	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to attendant=Destination
2	travel	might	fairies = fairy		the Court of King Peridor	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to court=Destination
3	find	past · perfect · passive		the beautiful bird		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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