The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 19

The White Bear gave her a silver bell, and told her that when she needed anything she had but to ring this bell, and what she wanted would appear.

Who acts: White Bear, door · What happens: give, tell, need, have, ring, want · To what, where: silver bell, door, anything, bell · Speech: someone speaks here

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, door), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bear	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bear	amod
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bell	det
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bell	compound
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 needed	mark
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 needed	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 needed	nsubj
16	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	ccomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 needed	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 anything	acl:relcl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 ring	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ring	mark
22	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	conj
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 bell	det
24	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ring	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wanted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wanted	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 wanted	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wanted	nsubj
29	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 appear	aux
31	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wanted	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	the White Bear	a silver bell	door	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bell=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the White Bear not said here		door	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	need	past	door	anything		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
4	have	past	door			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	ring	to-infinitive	door not said here	this bell		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
6	want	past	door			tree rules
7	appear not said to happen	would	door not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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