The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 83
Then he summoned his son, and revealed to him that he had got the false bride, who was nothing but a waiting-maid, while the real one, in the guise of the ex-goose-girl, was standing at his side.
Who acts: King, false bride, real one · What happens: summon, reveal, get, be, stand · To what, where: son, King, false bride, nothing, side
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, false bride, real one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 revealed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 revealed | cc |
| 8 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 summoned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 revealed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 got | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 revealed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bride | det |
| 16 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bride | amod |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nothing | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 nothing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 nothing | cop |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 bride | appos |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 maid | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 maid | det |
| 24 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 maid | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 waiting | punct |
| 26 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 standing | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 standing | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 one | det |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 one | amod |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 standing | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 guise | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 guise | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 guise | det |
| 35 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 one | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ex-goose-girl | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ex-goose-girl | det |
| 38 | ex-goose-girl | ex-goose-girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 guise | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 standing | aux |
| 41 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 got | advcl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 side | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 side | nmod:poss |
| 44 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 standing | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | King | King's son | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | |||
| 2 | reveal | participle | King not said here | King | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | King | the false bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the false bride | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | past · progressive | the real one | King's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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