The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 77
The maiden gladly consented to go with him, but first she gave him a golden rod, and bade him strike the castle with it.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: consent, go, give, strike · To what, where: maiden, golden rod, dragon, bade
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consented | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 gave | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consented | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rod | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rod | amod |
| 17 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strike | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strike | cc |
| 20 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strike | obl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bade | obj |
| 22 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 consented | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strike | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 strike | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle · passive | the maiden | gladly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | with dragon | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | give | past | maiden | a golden rod | dragon | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rod=Theme | ||
| 4 | strike | present | bade | with bade | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent castle=Patient with it=Instrument |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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