The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 30

But the old King had no work for her, and couldn’t think of anything; so he said, “I’ve a small boy who looks after the geese, she’d better help him.”

Who acts: old King, King, small boy, bride, better · What happens: have, not think, say, look, help · To what, where: work, small boy, King · 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 (old King, King, small boy, bride), 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	_	5 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 work	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 think	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 think	advmod
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 anything	case
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 think	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 said	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ’ve	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 ’ve	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ’ve	nsubj
24	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boy	det
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ’ve	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looks	nsubj
29	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 boy	acl:relcl
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 geese	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 geese	det
32	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 looks	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ’d	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ’d	nsubj
35	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ’ve	conj
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 help	nsubj
37	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ’d	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 help	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old King	no work			for bride	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
2	not think speech: other	could	the old King not said here				of anything	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	King	a small boy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
5	look in a quote	present	a small boy			after the geese		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	have in a quote	past	bride					tree rules
7	help in a quote	infinitive	better		King			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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