The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 35

He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water, that she might bake a cake for him.

Who acts: man, time, third · What happens: tell, come, go away, travel, request, take · To what, where: mother, man, well, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, time, third), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	18 travels	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 travels	nmod:poss
18	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
19	also	also	ADV	_	18 travels	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 requested	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 requested	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 requested	nsubj
23	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 requested	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 requested	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 well	aux
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 well	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
31	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bake	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 bake	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bake	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 bake	aux
38	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cake	det
40	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bake	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 bake	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		man's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past	the time			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go away	to-infinitive	man				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	travel	present	man not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	request	past	third	man				vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take	to-infinitive	third not said here	the well			for water	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent well=Theme for water=Beneficiary
7	bake	might	third	a cake			for man	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for he=Beneficiary

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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