The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 7
He had a splendid carriage made for his ambassador, and gave him more than a hundred horses and a hundred servants, and told him to be sure and bring the Princess back with him.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, make, give, tell, be, bring back · To what, where: splendid carriage, hundred horses, king, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 carriage | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 carriage | amod |
| 5 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carriage | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ambassador | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ambassador | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 17 hundred | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 more | fixed |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 horses | nummod |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 servants | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 servants | nummod |
| 22 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 horses | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sure | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sure | cop |
| 29 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 told | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bring | cc |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sure | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Princess | det |
| 33 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bring | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 bring | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bring | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a splendid carriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a splendid carriage not said here | for king's ambassador | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for ambassador=Asset | ||||
| 3 | give | past | hundred horses and hundred servants | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | king not said here | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bring back | infinitive | the Princess | with king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
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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