The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 35

One morning the empress told him that she was going to take a walk by herself, and that she would leave the keys of twelve cellars to his care.

Who acts: empress, prince · What happens: tell, go, take, leave, care · To what, where: prince, walk, keys, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empress, prince), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 empress	det
4	empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 going	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 walk	det
14	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 herself	case
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leave	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 leave	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leave	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 leave	aux
22	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 keys	det
24	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 leave	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 cellars	case
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 cellars	nummod
27	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 keys	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 care	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 care	nmod:poss
30	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the empress		prince	morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	empress					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	empress not said here	a walk			by empress	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
4	leave	would	empress	the keys of twelve cellars	prince's care			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to care=Recipient
5	care		prince					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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