The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 28

He went at once to the royal chamber, and asked the bride who it was she had brought with her and had left thus standing in the court below.

Who acts: King, bride · What happens: go, ask, be, bring, leave, stand · To what, where: royal chamber, bride, court · 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 (King, bride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2889): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	2 went	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 at	fixed
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 chamber	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chamber	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chamber	amod
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bride	det
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	11 asked	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 who	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 who	cop
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 who	acl:relcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 left	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 brought	conj
25	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
26	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 left	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 court	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 court	det
29	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 standing	obl
30	below	below	ADV	_	29 court	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	King		the royal chamber		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	King not said here	the bride			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient
3	is a	past					tree rules
4	bring	past · perfect	bride			with Princess	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past · perfect	bride not said here			thus property	tree rules
6	stand	gerund	bride not said here		the court		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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