The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 116

At last they sent one of the Queen’s maids to wait upon Fiordelisa, and told her to pretend to be quite stupid, and to see and hear nothing, while she was really to watch the Princess day and night, and keep the Queen informed of all her doings.

Who acts: letters, Queen · What happens: send, wait, tell, pretend, be, see · To what, where: one, last, Fiordelisa, Queen, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letters, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sent	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sent	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 maids	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 maids	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Queen	case
10	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wait	mark
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 maids	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Fiordelisa	case
14	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wait	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pretend	mark
20	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	24 stupid	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 stupid	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 stupid	advmod
24	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pretend	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hear	cc
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 hear	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 watch	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 watch	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 watch	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 watch	cop
36	really	really	ADV	_	38 watch	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 watch	mark
38	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 day	det
40	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 day	compound
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 watch	obl:unmarked
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 night	cc
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 day	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 keep	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 keep	cc
46	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 watch	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Queen	det
48	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 keep	obj
49	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 keep	xcomp
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 doings	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 doings	det:predet
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 doings	nmod:poss
53	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 informed	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	letters = letter	one of the Queen's maids		last			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	wait	to-infinitive	letters = letter not said here			Fiordelisa			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fiordelisa=Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	letters = letter not said here		Queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	letters = letter not said here						tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	letters = letter not said here					stupid property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	letters = letter not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	hear	infinitive	letters = letter not said here	nothing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
8	is	past	Queen				day	watch property	tree rules
9	keep	infinitive	Queen not said here	the Queen					tree rules
10	inform speech: other	participle	the Queen not said here					of Queen's doings	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent of doing=Topic

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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