The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 23
But Falada observed everything, and laid it all to heart.
Who acts: Falada · What happens: observe, lay · To what, where: everything, oath
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 (Falada), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 observed | cc |
| 2 | Falada | Falada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 observed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 it | det |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 heart | mark |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | Falada | everything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | Falada not said here | oath | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/37/23/