The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 9
So they again sent a messenger to the thicket, and begged so prettily for the loan of the gilded porch-door of which the attorney had told them that they got it at once.
Who acts: brother · What happens: send, beg, gild, tell, get, loan · To what, where: messenger, thicket, attorney, brother, gilded porch door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 thicket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thicket | det |
| 9 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 prettily | advmod |
| 14 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 12 begged | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 loan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loan | det |
| 17 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 20 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 door | amod |
| 21 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 porch | punct |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loan | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 told | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 attorney | det |
| 27 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 told | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 told | aux |
| 29 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 door | acl:relcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 told | iobj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 got | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | nsubj |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 begged | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 once | case |
| 36 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 got | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | brother | a messenger | the thicket | again | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to thicket=Destination | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | brother not said here | for the loan of the gilded porch door; prettily property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for loan=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the attorney | brother | of the gilded porch door | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic | |||
| 5 | get | past | brother | messenger | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 6 | loan | the gilded porch door | nom loan «possession 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 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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