The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 152

‘The Princess,’ said she, ‘is going to be married to-night against her will, for she has been expecting every day that the man who freed her from the spell would come.’

Who acts: Princess, man · What happens: say, go, marry, expect, free, come · To what, where: Princess, spell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	14 married	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 going	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 married	obl
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 will	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 will	nmod:poss
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 married	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 expecting	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 expecting	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 expecting	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 expecting	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 expecting	aux
26	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 going	conj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 expecting	obl:unmarked
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 freed	nsubj
33	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 man	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 freed	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 spell	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spell	det
37	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 freed	obl
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 expecting	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry	to-infinitive · passive				night	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
4	expect	present · perfect · progressive	Princess			day	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	free	past	the man	Princess	the spell		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source
6	come	would	the man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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