The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 127

One day, when they gave him his little loaf for breakfast, he thought he would like to eat it out in the garden; so he took it up in his mouth and trotted away toward a brook that he knew of a long way from the palace.

Who acts: hunters, Darling · What happens: give, think, like, eat out, take up, trot away · To what, where: little loaf, Darling, loaf, garden, mouth, brook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, Darling), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gave	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 loaf	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 loaf	amod
10	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 breakfast	case
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 eat	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 garden	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 garden	det
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 took	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mouth	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mouth	nmod:poss
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 trotted	cc
36	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 trotted	advmod
38	toward	toward	ADP	_	40 brook	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 brook	det
40	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trotted	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 knew	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knew	nsubj
43	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 trotted	advcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 way	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 way	det
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 way	amod
47	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knew	obl
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 palace	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 palace	det
50	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knew	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	hunters = hunter	Darling's little loaf	Darling			for breakfast	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient loaf=Theme for breakfast=Asset
2	think speech: other	past	Darling				day		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	like	would	Darling						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Darling not said here	loaf		the garden			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	take up	past	Darling	loaf		Darling's mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in mouth=Location
6	trot away	past	Darling not said here			a brook		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward brook=Trajectory
7	know	past	Darling			the palace		of a long way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of way=Stimulus

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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