The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 17

Now one of the Princess’s elder sisters, who was very inquisitive, had found out about everything, and went to pay her youngest sister a visit in the ruined castle.

Who acts: elder sisters, one · What happens: be, find out, go, pay, ruin · To what, where: youngest sister

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder sisters, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sisters	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Princess	case
7	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sisters	compound
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 inquisitive	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 inquisitive	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inquisitive	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 inquisitive	advmod
13	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sisters	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 inquisitive	csubj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 found	compound:prt
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 everything	case
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 found	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pay	mark
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 went	xcomp
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sister	nmod:poss
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 sister	amod
27	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 visit	det
29	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 castle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 castle	det
32	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 castle	amod
33	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 visit	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess's elder sisters		inquisitive property	tree rules
2	find out	past · perfect			about everything	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic
3	go	past	one of the Princess's elder sisters			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay	to-infinitive	one of the Princess's elder sisters not said here	Princess's youngest sister		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient visit=Asset
5	ruin	participle				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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