The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 70

The old King bade him go and drive forth his flock as usual next day; and when morning came he himself took up his position behind the dark gate, and heard how the goose-girl greeted Falada.

Who acts: Curdken, morning, goose girl · What happens: go, drive, come, take up, hear, greet · To what, where: old King bade, flock, position, dark gate, Falada · 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 (Curdken, morning, goose girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bade	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bade	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bade	compound
4	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drive	cc
8	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 drive	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 flock	nmod:poss
11	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drive	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drive	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	advcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 he	nmod:unmarked
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 took	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 position	nmod:poss
26	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 gate	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gate	det
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gate	amod
30	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heard	cc
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 greeted	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 girl	det
36	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 girl	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 goose	punct
38	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 greeted	nsubj
39	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	ccomp
40	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 greeted	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Curdken	the old King bade					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive	present	Curdken not said here	Curdken's flock			day	forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory
3	come	past	morning						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take up	past	Curdken	Curdken's position		the dark gate			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme
5	hear	past	Curdken not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	greet speech: greet	past	the goose girl		Falada				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falada=Theme

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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