The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 10

And when they told their mother of their adventure, she said what they had seen must have been the angel that guards good children.

Who acts: roses, mother, angel · What happens: tell, say, see, be, guard, adventure · To what, where: mother, angel, good children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, mother, angel), 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	_	12 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 told	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 adventure	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 adventure	nmod:poss
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 seen	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 angel	advcl
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 angel	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 angel	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 angel	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 angel	det
21	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 guards	nsubj
23	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 angel	acl:relcl
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 guards	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	roses = rose		roses's mother of roses's adventure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past · perfect	roses = rose	the angel		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is a	must · perfect		the angel		tree rules
5	guard	present	the angel		good children	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary
6	adventure		roses = rose			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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