The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 104

‘The old man has found out who was your counsellor,’ she said when she could speak, ‘and he means to destroy us both.’

Who acts: old man, way, maiden · What happens: find out, be, say, speak, mean, destroy · To what, where: counsellor, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, way, maiden), 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 found	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 found	compound:prt
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 counsellor	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 counsellor	cop
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 counsellor	nmod:poss
11	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 speak	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 speak	aux
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 means	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 means	nsubj
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 destroy	mark
26	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 means	xcomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 destroy	obj
28	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 us	nmod:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find out	present · perfect	the old man		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		your counsellor	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	way		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	could	way		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	maiden		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	us	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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