The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 42

The Princess then told her story, and said that it would be necessary to send an ambassador to her father to ask his consent and to invite him to the wedding.

Who acts: Princess, son · What happens: tell, say, be, send, ask, invite · To what, where: story, ambassador, father, consent, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, son), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 necessary	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 necessary	expl
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 necessary	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 necessary	cop
14	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 send	mark
16	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 necessary	csubj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ambassador	det
18	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 send	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 send	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 send	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 consent	nmod:poss
25	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 invite	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 invite	mark
28	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ask	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 invite	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 wedding	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wedding	det
32	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invite	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess	Princess's story		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would					necessary property	tree rules
4	send	to-infinitive		a ambassador	Princess's father			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme to father=Destination
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		son's consent				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Recipient
6	invite	to-infinitive			son		to the wedding	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	consent		son					nom consent «communication transitive»: 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 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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