The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 32

At length he hit upon a plan, and spoke to the King: “All the things she has about her--tables, chairs, dishes, goblets, bowls, and all her household furniture--are made of gold.

Who acts: life, Princess · What happens: hit, speak, have, make · To what, where: length, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, Princess), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 plan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoke	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spoke	cc
10	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 spoke	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 made	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 made	punct
16	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 things	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 things	det
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 made	nsubj:pass
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 things	acl:relcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 tables	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tables	nmod:poss
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 tables	punct
24	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chairs	punct
26	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tables	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dishes	punct
28	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tables	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 goblets	punct
30	goblets	goblet	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tables	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bowls	punct
32	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 goblets	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 furniture	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 furniture	cc
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 furniture	det:predet
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 furniture	nmod:poss
37	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 furniture	compound
38	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 things	conj
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 things	punct
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 made	aux:pass
41	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 gold	case
43	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 made	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hit	past	life		length	upon a plan	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	life not said here			to the King	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent
3	have in a quote	present	Princess	all things and Princess's household furniture not said here		about Princess's tables and chairs and dishes and goblets and bowls	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	make in a quote	present · passive		all things and Princess's household furniture		of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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