The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 23

The Prince told him of the misfortune that had befallen him, and of the necessity of recovering the mare and foal.

Who acts: Prince, misfortune, necessity · What happens: tell, befall, recover · To what, where: house, Prince, mare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince, misfortune, necessity), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 misfortune	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 misfortune	det
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 befallen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 befallen	aux
10	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 misfortune	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 befallen	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 necessity	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 necessity	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 necessity	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 necessity	det
16	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	conj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 recovering	mark
18	recovering	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 necessity	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mare	det
20	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 recovering	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 foal	cc
22	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mare	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Prince		house	of the misfortune	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	befall	past · perfect	the misfortune	Prince			tree rules
3	recover	gerund	the necessity not said here	the mare and foal			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme

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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