The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 145

“I have got to find a golden hen who has lost a feather out of her tail,” answered the boy; “but I don’t know where she lives or how I shall catch her!”

Who acts: boy, golden hen, hen · What happens: get, find, lose, answer, not know, live · To what, where: golden hen, feather, tail, hen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, golden hen, hen), 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 got	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 answered	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hen	amod
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lost	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 hen	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 feather	det
14	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 tail	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 know	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	parataxis
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lives	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lives	nsubj
33	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 catch	cc
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 catch	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 catch	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 catch	aux
38	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 lives	conj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 catch	obj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · perfect	the boy = boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy = boy not said here	a golden hen		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic
3	lose in a quote	present · perfect	a golden hen	a feather	hen's tail	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out tail=Initial_Location
4	answer speech: express	past	the boy			tree rules
5	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the boy = boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	live in a quote	present	hen			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	catch in a quote	shall	the boy = boy	hen		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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