The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 15
And as they passed a brook she called once more to her waiting-maid: “Pray get down and give me a drink from my golden cup,” for she had long ago forgotten her maid’s rude words.
Who acts: rays, Princess, maid · What happens: pass, call, pray, get down, give, forget · To what, where: brook, drink, Princess, golden cup, rude words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rays, Princess, maid), 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 | _ | 4 passed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brook | acl:relcl |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 passed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 maid | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maid | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pray | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pray | punct |
| 18 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Pray | xcomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 get | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drink | det |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 cup | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cup | nmod:poss |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cup | amod |
| 29 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 forgotten | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 forgotten | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 forgotten | aux |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 ago | advmod |
| 36 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 37 forgotten | advmod |
| 37 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 passed | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 maid | nmod:poss |
| 39 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 words | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 maid | case |
| 41 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 words | amod |
| 42 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 forgotten | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | rays = ray | a brook | to Princess's waiting maid | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past | Princess | a brook not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brook=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get down in a quote | infinitive | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | a drink | Princess | my golden cup | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | |||
| 6 | forget | past · perfect | Princess | Princess's maid's rude words | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | word | Princess's maid | nom word «communication 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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