The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 48

When he got there he gave the messengers who brought her a letter of thanks and a handsome present for their master and rewards for themselves; and then without delay he took the poor woman and her tiny baby-boy up on to his camel and rode off to a wild desert.

Who acts: king, messengers · What happens: get, give, bring, take up, ride off, letter · To what, where: messengers, letter, messenger, poor woman, camel, wild desert

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, messengers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 messengers	det
8	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 brought	nsubj
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 messengers	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 letter	det
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thanks	case
15	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letter	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 present	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 present	det
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 present	amod
19	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thanks	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 master	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rewards	cc
24	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 master	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 themselves	case
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 rewards	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 took	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 took	advmod
30	without	without	ADP	_	31 delay	case
31	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 took	nsubj
33	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 woman	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
36	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 boy	cc
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 boy	nmod:poss
39	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boy	amod
40	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 boy	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 baby	punct
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 woman	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	33 took	compound:prt
44	on	on	ADP	_	47 camel	case
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 camel	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 camel	nmod:poss
47	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 took	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 rode	cc
49	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 took	conj
50	off	off	ADP	_	49 rode	compound:prt
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 desert	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 desert	det
53	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 desert	amod
54	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rode	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	king			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	past	king	the messengers					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
3	bring	past	the messengers	a letter of thanks and a handsome present	messenger			for thanks's master and rewards for rewards	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination letter=Theme
4	take up	past	king	the poor woman and messenger's tiny baby boy		king's camel	then	without delay	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on camel=Destination
5	ride off	past	king not said here			a wild desert			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to desert=Trajectory
6	letter			thanks and a handsome present					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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