The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 87

He therefore went to the royal castle, obtained an audience of the Princess, and told her about the strange things he had seen in the underground palace.

Who acts: thing · What happens: go, obtain, tell, see · To what, where: royal castle, audience, Princess, strange things, underground palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 castle	amod
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 obtained	punct
9	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 audience	det
11	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtained	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 audience	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 things	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 things	det
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 things	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 palace	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
28	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 palace	amod
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	thing			the royal castle	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
2	obtain	past	thing not said here	a audience of the Princess				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset audience=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	thing not said here		Princess		about the strange things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about thing=Topic
4	see	past · perfect	thing	the strange things not said here		the underground palace		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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