The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 45

So the boy thanked her, and he fastened on the Shoes of Swiftness, and turned to say good-by to the young man and the lady.

Who acts: boy · What happens: thank, fasten, turn, say · To what, where: way, good · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	4 thanked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fastened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fastened	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fastened	nsubj
9	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Shoes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Shoes	det
12	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fastened	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Swiftness	case
14	Swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Shoes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 turned	xcomp
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 say	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
22	by	by	ADP	_	26 man	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 man	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 say	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lady	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the boy		way		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	fasten	past	boy			on the Shoes of Swiftness	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on shoe=Co-Patient
3	turn	past	the boy not said here				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	good		by the young man and the lady	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=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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