The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 76

Then they asked him why he had come; and he told them how he was sent to find the Sword of Sharpness and the Cap of Darkness.

Who acts: Fairies, boy · What happens: ask, come, tell, send, find · To what, where: boy, Fairies, Sword · 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 (Fairies, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 asked	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sent	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sent	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux:pass
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sword	det
21	Sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Sharpness	case
23	Sharpness	Sharpness	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Sword	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Cap	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Cap	det
26	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Sharpness	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Darkness	case
28	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Cap	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Fairies = fairy		boy	then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	boy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	boy		Fairies = fairy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	send	past · passive		boy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	find	to-infinitive		the Sword of Sharpness and the Cap of Darkness			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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