The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3

“I have brought you such a nice present,” he said to his daughters, and as the boy was very pretty they were delighted to have him and gave him all their best toys.

Who acts: king, boy · What happens: bring, say, be, have, give · To what, where: daughters, king, best toys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, boy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 present	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 present	det
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 present	amod
9	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 daughters	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughters	nmod:poss
16	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 delighted	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 delighted	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 delighted	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 pretty	advmod
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 delighted	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 delighted	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 delighted	cop
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gave	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 delighted	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	iobj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 toys	det:predet
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 toys	nmod:poss
36	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 toys	amod
37	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	present · perfect	king		king's daughters = daughter	such nice present obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	king		king's daughters		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	the boy			delighted, pretty property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	king			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	give	past	king not said here	daughters's best toys	king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient toy=Theme

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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