The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 38

As she could think of no way to guess the riddle, she ordered her maid to steal at night into the Prince’s bedroom and to listen, for she thought that he might perhaps talk aloud in his dreams and so betray the secret.

Who acts: poison, maid · What happens: think, guess, order, steal, listen, talk · To what, where: riddle, maid, bedroom, dreams, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poison, maid), 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	_	4 think	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 guess	mark
9	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 riddle	det
11	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guess	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	nsubj
14	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 maid	nmod:poss
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ordered	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 steal	mark
18	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ordered	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steal	obl
21	into	into	ADP	_	25 bedroom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Prince	det
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 bedroom	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Prince	case
25	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steal	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 listen	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 listen	mark
28	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 steal	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 thought	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 listen	advcl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 talk	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 talk	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 talk	aux
36	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	37 talk	advmod
37	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 thought	ccomp
38	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	37 talk	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 dreams	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 dreams	nmod:poss
41	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 talk	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 betray	cc
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 betray	advmod
44	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 secret	det
46	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 betray	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	could	poison					of no way	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	guess	to-infinitive	poison not said here	the riddle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme
3	order	past	poison		poison's maid				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic
4	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	poison not said here			the Prince's bedroom	night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	listen	to-infinitive	poison not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	poison						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	talk	might	maid			maid's dreams		aloud, perhaps property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	betray	infinitive	poison not said here	the secret					tree rules
9	dream		maid						nom dream «cognition 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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