The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 64

As the Prince was dancing with her he managed to whisper in her ear, ‘I have come to set you free!’

Who acts: Prince, I · What happens: dance, manage, whisper, come, set · To what, where: ear, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 dancing	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dancing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dancing	aux
5	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 managed	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dancing	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 managed	nsubj
9	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 whisper	mark
11	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 managed	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ear	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ear	nmod:poss
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whisper	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 managed	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 set	mark
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	xcomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 set	obj
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 set	xcomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 managed	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	the Prince			with mare	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	manage	past	Prince				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		mare's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	come	present · perfect	I				tree rules
5	set	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result

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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