The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 25

Then she went away, and told the old King that the thing inside the iron stove would not have her, but wanted the Princess.

Who acts: daughter, thing · What happens: go away, tell, not have, want · To what, where: old King, daughter, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj:outer
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 stove	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stove	det
16	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stove	amod
17	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	nmod
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 wanted	cc
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wanted	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	daughter			then	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	daughter not said here		the old King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not have	would	the thing inside the iron stove	daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	want	past	daughter not said here	the Princess				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot princess=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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