The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 93

“I will see about that,” said the giant, and went away to the bench, but the bag was standing there, and it was so full that gold and silver dropped out when the giant untied the string.

Who acts: I, bag, gold, giant · What happens: see, say, go away, stand, be, drop out · To what, where: giant, bench, string · 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 (I, bag, gold, giant), 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 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bench	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bench	det
18	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 standing	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bag	det
22	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 standing	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 full	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 full	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 full	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 full	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 full	advmod
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 dropped	mark
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dropped	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 silver	cc
35	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gold	conj
36	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 full	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 dropped	compound:prt
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 untied	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 giant	det
40	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 untied	nsubj
41	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 dropped	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 string	det
43	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 untied	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	I			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant			tree rules
3	go away	past			the bench	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bench=Initial_Location
4	stand	past · progressive	the bag		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	bag			full property	tree rules
6	drop out	past	gold and silver				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	untie	past	the giant	the string			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=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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