The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 3
Now, when the time drew near for her to be married and to depart into a foreign kingdom, her old mother gave her much costly baggage, and many ornaments, gold and silver, trinkets and knicknacks, and, in fact, everything that belonged to a royal trousseau, for she loved her daughter very dearly.
Who acts: time, old mother, many ornaments · What happens: draw, marry, depart, give, belong, love · To what, where: her, foreign kingdom, costly baggage, daughter, fact
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 (time, old mother, many ornaments), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 drew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 drew | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 married | mark |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 married | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 drew | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 depart | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 depart | mark |
| 15 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 married | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 18 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kingdom | amod |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depart | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mother | amod |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | iobj |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 costly | advmod |
| 27 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 baggage | amod |
| 28 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 loved | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 loved | cc |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ornaments | amod |
| 32 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 loved | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gold | punct |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ornaments | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 silver | cc |
| 36 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gold | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 trinkets | punct |
| 38 | trinkets | trinket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ornaments | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 knicknacks | cc |
| 40 | knicknacks | knicknack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ornaments | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 loved | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 loved | cc |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fact | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 fact | case |
| 45 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 loved | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 everything | punct |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 45 fact | conj |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 belonged | nsubj |
| 49 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 everything | acl:relcl |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 trousseau | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 trousseau | det |
| 52 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 trousseau | amod |
| 53 | trousseau | trousseau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 belonged | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 loved | punct |
| 55 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 57 loved | mark |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 loved | nsubj |
| 57 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 58 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 59 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 loved | obj |
| 60 | very | very | ADV | _ | 61 dearly | advmod |
| 61 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 57 loved | advmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the time | now | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | her = she | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | depart | to-infinitive | a foreign kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | give | past | her old mother | costly baggage | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient baggage=Theme | |||
| 5 | belong | past | to a royal trousseau | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | love | past | many ornaments and trinkets and knicknacks | mother's daughter | fact | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
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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