The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 19

And he made a feast to which he invited them all, and they all brought their presents; some brought gold cups, and some brought necklaces of gold and amber, and some brought beautiful horses; but the boy had nothing, though he was the son of a princess, for his mother had nothing to give him.

Who acts: king, presents, some, boy, mother · What happens: make, invite, bring, have, be, give · To what, where: feast, presents, gold cups, necklaces, beautiful horses, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, presents, some, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 invited	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 invited	nsubj
9	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feast	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 invited	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 brought	advmod
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 presents	nmod:poss
18	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 brought	nsubj
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cups	compound
23	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	conj
28	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 brought	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 necklaces	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 amber	cc
32	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gold	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 brought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brought	cc
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 brought	nsubj
36	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	conj
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 horses	amod
38	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 brought	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boy	det
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
44	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 had	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 son	punct
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	50 son	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 son	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 son	cop
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 son	det
50	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 nothing	appos
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 princess	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 princess	det
53	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 son	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 had	punct
55	for	for	SCONJ	_	58 had	mark
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 mother	nmod:poss
57	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 had	conj
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	58 had	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 give	mark
61	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 nothing	acl
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 give	iobj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	king	a feast			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Product
2	invite	past	king	presents = present		to a feast	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	bring	past	presents = present	presents's presents			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent present=Theme
4	bring	past	some	gold cups			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
5	bring	past	some	necklaces of gold and amber			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme
6	bring	past	some		beautiful horses		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
7	have	past	the boy	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
8	is a	past	boy	the son		of a princess	tree rules
9	have	past	boy's mother	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
10	give	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here	nothing not said here	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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