The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 17

The gardener, as you have heard already, had a son, who was a very handsome young man, with most agreeable manners, and every day he carried the best fruit of the garden to the King, and all the prettiest flowers to his daughter.

Who acts: you, gardener, son, man · What happens: hear, have, be, carry · To what, where: gardener, son, handsome young man, best fruit, King

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 (you, gardener, son, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 gardener	acl:relcl
8	already	already	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gardener	punct
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 handsome	advmod
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 manners	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 manners	case
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 manners	amod
24	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 manners	amod
25	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 man	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 carried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carried	cc
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obl:unmarked
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 carried	nsubj
31	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fruit	det
33	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 fruit	amod
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 garden	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 garden	det
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fruit	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 King	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 King	det
40	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 flowers	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flowers	cc
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 flowers	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 flowers	det
45	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 flowers	amod
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 carried	obl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 daughter	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 daughter	nmod:poss
49	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flowers	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	you	the gardener not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gardener=Stimulus
2	have	past	the gardener	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	past	a son	a handsome young man				tree rules
4	carry	past	man	the best fruit of the garden	the King	day	all prettiest flowers to man's daughter obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to king=Destination

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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