The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 50

At length she told the queen what she had seen, but they determined to keep it as a secret between themselves.

Who acts: nurse, children · What happens: tell, see, determine, keep · To what, where: queen, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, children), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
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 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 seen	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 determined	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 determined	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 determined	nsubj
14	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 determined	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 keep	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 secret	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 secret	det
20	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obl
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 themselves	case
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 keep	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	nurse		the queen	length		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	nurse					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	determine	past	children = child					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	length			as a secret; between children = child	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme between themselves=Location

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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