The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 58

The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present, but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: tell, go away, return, draw · To what, where: Irishman, carriage · 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), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Irishman	det
6	Irishman	irishman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 present	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 present	det
14	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 return	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 return	aux
18	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 return	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 days	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 days	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 days	amod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 return	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 carriage	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 carriage	det
27	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 days	nmod
28	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 carriage	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 horses	case
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 horses	nummod
31	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 horses	amod
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 drawn	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess		the Irishman	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent irishman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go away	must	Princess				for the present; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for present=Beneficiary
3	return	would				day	for Irishman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	draw	participle		a carriage not said here			by four grey horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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