The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 7

So they took a sad farewell of each other, and the Princess stuck the rag in front of her dress, mounted her horse, and set forth on the journey to her bridegroom’s kingdom.

Who acts: drops, Princess · What happens: take, stick, mount, set · To what, where: sad farewell, rag, front, horse, journey

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 (drops, Princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farewell	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farewell	amod
6	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 farewell	nmod
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stuck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stuck	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stuck	nsubj
14	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rag	det
16	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stuck	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stuck	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 dress	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dress	nmod:poss
21	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mounted	punct
23	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mounted	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 set	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 journey	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 journey	det
32	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bridegroom	nmod:poss
35	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kingdom	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 bridegroom	case
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	drops = drop	a sad farewell of each			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
2	stick	past	the Princess	the rag	front of Princess's dress		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rag=Theme in front=Destination
3	mount	past	drops = drop not said here	Princess's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	set	infinitive	drops = drop not said here		the journey	to Princess's bridegroom's kingdom; forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination

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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