The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 83

In a moment they stood beside her, and the elder one said, ‘Do not be sad, all will go well,’ and they told the innkeeper that if any of the king’s servants wanted any birds for their master they were to be sent up to them, as they had three doves for sale.

Who acts: sisters, elder one, all, any · What happens: stand, say, not be, go, tell, want · To what, where: innkeeper, birds, sisters, three doves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, elder one, all, any), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sad	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 sad	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 sad	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 sad	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sad	cop
19	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 go	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sad	parataxis
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 go	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 sad	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 innkeeper	det
31	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 wanted	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 any	mark
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 wanted	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 servants	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 servants	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 king	case
39	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 any	nmod
40	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	ccomp
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 birds	det
42	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 wanted	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 master	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 master	nmod:poss
45	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wanted	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sent	nsubj:pass
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 sent	aux
48	to	to	PART	_	50 sent	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 sent	aux:pass
50	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 master	acl:relcl
51	up	up	ADP	_	50 sent	compound:prt
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sent	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 had	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 had	nsubj
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 wanted	conj
58	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 doves	nummod
59	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 had	obj
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 sale	case
61	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 doves	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	sisters = sister			moment	beside girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the elder one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	infinitive · do-support					sad property	tree rules
4	go	future	all				well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	sisters = sister	the innkeeper				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Recipient clause=Topic
6	want	past	any	any birds			for sisters's master	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme
7	send up	past · passive	any not said here	sisters = sister	birds = bird			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to they=Destination
8	have	past	sisters = sister	three doves			for sale	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=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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