The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 112

Then he gave his good wishes for the journey and his blessing, and the prince kissed his feet, said good-bye, and, with thanks to the Causer of Causes, took the road.

Who acts: Qaf, prince, thanks · What happens: give, kiss, say, take, wish, bless · To what, where: good wishes, feet, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Qaf, prince, thanks), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wishes	nmod:poss
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wishes	amod
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 journey	det
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blessing	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 blessing	nmod:poss
12	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 journey	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kissed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kissed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kissed	nsubj
17	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feet	nmod:poss
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kissed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	ccomp
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 good	punct
24	bye	bye	INTJ	_	22 good	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thanks	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 thanks	case
29	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	nsubj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Causer	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Causer	det
32	Causer	Causer	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 thanks	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Causes	case
34	Causes	Cause	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 Causer	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thanks	punct
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 road	det
38	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Qaf	Qaf's good wishes	then	for the journey and Qaf's blessing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent wish=Theme for journey=Asset
2	kiss	past	the prince	Qaf's feet			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Qaf not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	thanks to the Causer of Causes	the road			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
5	wish		Qaf				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	bless		Qaf				nom blessing «act 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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