The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 122

As they fled, the girl told him that she had overheard a conversation between the old man and his grandmother, saying that she was a king’s daughter, whom the old fellow had obtained by cunning from her parents.

Who acts: peas, girl, cunning · What happens: flee, tell, overhear, say, be, obtain · To what, where: prince, conversation, daughter, old fellow · 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 (peas, girl, cunning), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 fled	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fled	nsubj
3	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fled	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 overheard	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overheard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 overheard	aux
12	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 conversation	det
14	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 overheard	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	18 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conversation	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grandmother	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grandmother	nmod:poss
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 overheard	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 daughter	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 daughter	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 daughter	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saying	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 obtained	punct
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 obtained	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 obtained	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 obtained	aux
37	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 daughter	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 cunning	case
39	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 obtained	obl
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 parents	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 parents	nmod:poss
42	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 cunning	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	flee	past	peas = pea				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the girl		prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	overhear	past · perfect	girl	a conversation		between the old man and prince's grandmother	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	gerund	girl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	girl	a king's daughter			tree rules
6	obtain	past · perfect · passive	cunning from girl's parents	the old fellow		a king's daughter obl	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=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 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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