The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 87

“What,” said he, “should be done to a certain person who has deceived everyone?” and he proceeded to relate the whole story, ending up with, “Now what sentence should be passed?”

Who acts: certain person, King · What happens: say, do, deceive, proceed, relate, end up · To what, where: everyone, whole story, sentence · 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 (certain person, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux:pass
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 person	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 person	amod
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 deceived	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 deceived	aux
18	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 person	acl:relcl
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 deceived	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 deceived	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 proceeded	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 proceeded	nsubj
24	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 relate	mark
26	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proceeded	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 story	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 story	amod
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 relate	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ending	punct
31	ending	end	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 proceeded	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 ending	compound:prt
33	with	with	ADP	_	31 ending	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 passed	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 passed	punct
36	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 what	advmod
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 passed	obj
38	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 passed	nsubj:pass
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 passed	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 passed	aux:pass
41	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 proceeded	advcl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	41 passed	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	should · passive			to a certain person	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	deceive in a quote	present · perfect	a certain person	everyone		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient
4	proceed	past	King			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	relate	to-infinitive	King not said here	the whole story		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
6	end up	gerund	King not said here			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	pass in a quote	should · passive		sentence		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=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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