The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 54

“Go,” said he to his Master of the Horse, “go and seek the shadows of the little black girl, the monkey, and the dog: they will amuse our Princess.”

Who acts: Tintin, Sheep · What happens: go, say, seek, amuse, shadow · To what, where: Master, dog, shadows, Princess, little black girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tintin, Sheep), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Master	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Master	nmod:poss
9	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Horse	det
12	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Master	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seek	cc
17	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shadows	det
19	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seek	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 girl	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 girl	amod
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 girl	amod
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shadows	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 monkey	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 monkey	det
27	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 girl	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dog	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dog	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dog	det
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 amuse	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 amuse	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 amuse	aux
35	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 Princess	nmod:poss
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 amuse	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 amuse	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 amuse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Tintin		Tintin's Master of the Horse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive	Tintin not said here	the dog		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek in a quote	infinitive	Tintin not said here	the shadows of the little black girl and the monkey		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme
5	amuse in a quote	future	Sheep	our Princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
6	shadow in a quote			the little black girl and the monkey		nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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