The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 10

Her nurse, who was dumb, took care of her, and the necessaries of life were conveyed to her through a little window in the wall, while guards were always pacing to and fro outside, with orders to cut off the head of anyone who tried to approach, which they would certainly have done without thinking twice about it.

Who acts: nurse, guards, Queen · What happens: be, take, convey, pace, fro, cut off · To what, where: care, necessaries, Queen, little window, head

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, guards, Queen), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nurse	nmod:poss
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dumb	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dumb	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nurse	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nurse	punct
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 care	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 conveyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 conveyed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 necessaries	det
15	necessaries	necessary	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 conveyed	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 life	case
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 necessaries	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 conveyed	aux:pass
19	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 conveyed	obl
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 window	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 window	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 window	amod
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 conveyed	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 wall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wall	det
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 window	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pacing	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 pacing	mark
31	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 pacing	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pacing	aux
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 pacing	advmod
34	pacing	pace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 conveyed	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	34 pacing	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fro	cc
37	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 pacing	conj
38	outside	outside	ADV	_	37 fro	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 orders	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 orders	case
41	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fro	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 cut	mark
43	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 orders	acl
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 cut	compound:prt
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 head	det
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cut	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 anyone	case
48	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	46 head	nmod
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 tried	nsubj
50	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 anyone	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 approach	mark
52	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 tried	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 done	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 done	obj
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 done	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 done	aux
57	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	59 done	advmod
58	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 done	aux
59	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 approach	parataxis
60	without	without	SCONJ	_	61 thinking	mark
61	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 done	advcl
62	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	61 thinking	advmod
63	about	about	ADP	_	64 it	case
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 thinking	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen's nurse				dumb property	tree rules
2	take	past	Queen's nurse	care of Queen				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	convey	past · passive		the necessaries of life	Queen	a little window in the wall		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to she=Recipient
4	pace	past · progressive	guards				always property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fro	infinitive	guards not said here				with orders; outside property	tree rules
6	cut off	to-infinitive	guards not said here	the head of anyone				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
7	try	past						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	approach not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	do	would · perfect	guards = guard				certainly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
10	think speech: other	gerund	guards = guard not said here				about wall; twice property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
11	care		Queen					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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