The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 85

She told him of the old woman’s deceit, and how she had taken the three children away and hidden them.

Who acts: queen · What happens: tell, take, hidden · To what, where: king, three children, children · 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), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 deceit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deceit	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taken	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 taken	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 children	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 children	nummod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taken	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	15 taken	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hidden	cc
21	hidden	hidden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 taken	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hidden	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	queen		king	of the old woman's deceit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	take	past · perfect	queen		the three children	away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
3	hidden	infinitive	queen not said here	children = child			tree rules

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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