The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 12

Next Thursday evening the White Bear came to fetch her.

Who acts: White Bear · What happens: come, fetch · To what, where: husbandman

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Bear), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
2	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 evening	compound
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bear	det
5	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Bear	amod
6	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fetch	mark
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fetch	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the White Bear				evening		tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the White Bear not said here	husbandman					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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