The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 77

The gardener’s son went back to say good-by to the old beggar-woman; then he said to the bronze ring:

Who acts: son · What happens: go back, say · To what, where: good, bronze ring · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son), 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	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
11	by	by	ADP	_	17 woman	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	17 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 woman	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 beggar	punct
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 said	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 ring	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ring	det
24	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ring	compound
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the gardener's son					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the gardener's son not said here	good			by the old beggar woman	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	son		the bronze ring	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ring=Recipient

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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