The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 17

She gave his servants a great deal of money, and they betrayed the secret to her, and also told her of the reel which alone could point out the way.

Who acts: queen, servants, reel · What happens: give, betray, tell, point out, deal · To what, where: servants, secret, queen, way, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, servants, reel), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 servants	nmod:poss
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 betrayed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 betrayed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 betrayed	nsubj
13	betrayed	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 secret	det
15	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betrayed	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 betrayed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 told	advmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 reel	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reel	det
25	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 point	nsubj
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 point	advmod
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 point	aux
29	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reel	acl:relcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 point	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 point	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	queen	king's servants			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient deal=Theme
2	betray	past	servants = servant	the secret	queen		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	queen not said here		queen	of the reel	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	point out	could	the reel	the way		alone property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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