The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 19

“Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that,” said the giant, so he called to his hill-borer to come and bore through the mountain so that the river-sucker might be able to drink up the water again.

Who acts: I, giant, river sucker · What happens: find, say, call, come, bear, be · To what, where: cure, giant, hill borer, mountain, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (I, giant, river sucker), 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	_	9 find	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 find	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	9 find	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cure	det
11	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 cure	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 called	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 borer	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 borer	nmod:poss
25	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 borer	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 hill	punct
27	borer	borer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 borer	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bore	cc
31	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	conj
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 mountain	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountain	det
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bore	obl
35	so	so	SCONJ	_	43 able	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 able	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sucker	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sucker	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 river	punct
40	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 able	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 able	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	cop
43	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bore	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 drink	mark
45	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	xcomp
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 drink	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 drink	obj
49	again	again	ADV	_	45 drink	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	future	I	a cure				for that; soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cure=Theme for that=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant					tree rules
3	call	past	giant		giant's hill borer				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to borer=Recipient
4	come	to-infinitive	giant not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bear	past	giant not said here			the mountain			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	might	the river sucker					able property	tree rules
7	drink up	to-infinitive	the river sucker not said here	the water			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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