The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 86
Now when they had eaten and drunk, and were merry, the old King asked the waiting-maid to solve a knotty point for him.
Who acts: garments, old King · What happens: eat, be, ask, solve · To what, where: waiting maid, knotty point
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 (garments, old King), 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 | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drunk | cc |
| 7 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 merry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 merry | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 merry | cop |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 King | amod |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 merry | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maid | det |
| 18 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maid | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 waiting | punct |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 solve | mark |
| 22 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 point | det |
| 24 | knotty | knotty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 point | amod |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 solve | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 solve | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | garments = garment | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | merry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old King | the waiting maid | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | solve not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old King not said here | a knotty point | for King | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Topic |
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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