The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 8
They bade farewell to the King, who gave them presents of silver and precious stones, and appointed to meet them at the same hour, in the same place, after a year had passed, to see the little dogs they had brought for him.
Who acts: Princes, year, little dogs · What happens: bade, give, appoint, meet, pass, see · To what, where: presents, Princes, same place, little dogs
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, year, little dogs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 2 bade | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bade | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silver | case |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presents | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stones | cc |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stones | amod |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 presents | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appointed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appointed | cc |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bade | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 appointed | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 hour | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hour | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hour | amod |
| 26 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 place | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 passed | punct |
| 33 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 37 passed | mark |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 year | det |
| 35 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 passed | aux |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 appointed | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 passed | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 dogs | det |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 dogs | amod |
| 43 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 see | obj |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 brought | aux |
| 46 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 brought | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Princes = prince | to the King; farewell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | presents of silver and precious stones | Princes = prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appoint | participle | the same place | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Princes = prince | hour | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | pass | past · perfect | a year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | the little dogs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the little dogs not said here | Princes = prince | for king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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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