The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 37

The maiden thanked the bird heartily and went home, telling no one what she had heard.

Who acts: maiden, thread · What happens: thank, go, tell, hear · To what, where: bird, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, thread), 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 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obj
6	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 telling	obj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 telling	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 what	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the maiden		the bird	heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
2	go	past	the maiden not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the maiden not said here	no one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient what=Topic
4	hear	past · perfect	thread				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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