The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 37

Celandine gracefully accepted their hospitality, and soon told them what had happened to her.

Who acts: Celandine · What happens: accept, tell, happen · To what, where: hospitality, Celandine, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celandine), 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	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accepted	nsubj
2	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	3 accepted	advmod
3	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hospitality	nmod:poss
5	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accepted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accepted	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 happened	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	Celandine	Celandine's hospitality		gracefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Celandine not said here		Celandine	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect			Princess		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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