The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 95

As they would not tell her, she went on farther, and presently asked again, and this time the people answered that to-morrow she might see the King driving through the streets with the Princess Turritella, as it was said that at last he had consented to marry her.

Who acts: eyes, hair, people, King · What happens: not tell, go, ask, answer, see, drive · To what, where: hair, farther, that, King, streets, morrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, hair, people, King), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 farther	case
11	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
14	presently	presently	ADV	_	15 asked	advmod
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 asked	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 answered	cc
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 answered	obl:unmarked
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 answered	nsubj
23	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	parataxis
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 answered	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 morrow	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 answered	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
33	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 King	acl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 streets	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 streets	det
36	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 driving	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 Turritella	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Turritella	det
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Turritella	compound
40	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 streets	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 said	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 said	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 said	aux:pass
45	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 see	ccomp
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 consented	mark
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 last	case
48	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 consented	obl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 consented	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 consented	aux
51	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 said	ccomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 marry	mark
53	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 consented	xcomp
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 marry	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	would	eyes = eye		hair				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	go	past	hair			farther			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	hair not said here				again	presently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past	the people	that			time		tree rules
5	see	might	hair	the King				to morrow	tree rules
6	drive	gerund	the King not said here			the streets with the Princess Turritella			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Trajectory
7	say speech: assert	past · passive		morrow					tree rules
8	consent	past · perfect	King			last			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	marry	to-infinitive	King not said here	hair					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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