The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 15
So the gardener allowed himself to be persuaded, and went away with the messengers, taking his wife and his son with him; and the King, delighted to have found a real gardener, entrusted him with the care of his garden.
Who acts: gardener, king, garden · What happens: allow, persuade, go away, take, find, entrust · To what, where: king, wife, real gardener, man
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, king, garden), 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 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 allowed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuaded | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 8 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 messengers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 messengers | det |
| 15 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 son | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 entrusted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 entrusted | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 entrusted | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 delighted | punct |
| 30 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 King | amod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 found | mark |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 found | aux |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 delighted | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 gardener | det |
| 35 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gardener | amod |
| 36 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 King | punct |
| 38 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 entrusted | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 care | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 care | det |
| 42 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 entrusted | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 garden | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 garden | nmod:poss |
| 45 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 care | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the gardener | king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | go away | past | the gardener not said here | with the messengers; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with messenger=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | the gardener not said here | king's wife and king's son | with king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive · perfect | the King not said here | a real gardener | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Topic | ||||
| 6 | entrust | past | the King | man | with the care of king's garden | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with care=Theme | |||
| 7 | care | king's garden | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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