The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 4

In the morning the giant had to go out to pasture his goats, and as he was leaving the house he told the King’s son that he must clean out the stable.

Who acts: giant, king · What happens: have, go out, pasture, leave, tell, clean out · To what, where: goats, house, son, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, king), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pasture	mark
11	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 goats	nmod:poss
13	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pasture	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 leaving	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 leaving	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 leaving	aux
19	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 told	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaving	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 King	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 clean	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 clean	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 clean	aux
31	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	ccomp
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 clean	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stable	det
34	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 clean	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the giant			morning		tree rules
2	go out	to-infinitive	the giant not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pasture	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	giant's goats				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
4	leave	past · progressive	giant	the house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	giant		the King's son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
6	clean out	must	king	the stable				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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