The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 9
“Come with us and be gardener to the King,” they said to him.
Who acts: gardeners · What happens: come, be, say · To what, where: gardener, king · 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 (gardeners), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gardener | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gardener | cop |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 us | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | gardener | to the King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | gardeners = gardener | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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