The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 40
So his mother gave him a can to go to the well and bring home water, that she might bake him a cake for his journey.
Who acts: mother, man · What happens: give, go, bring, bake, journey · To what, where: man, well, water, cake
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 (mother, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 can | det |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 well | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 well | det |
| 12 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bake | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bake | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bake | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bake | aux |
| 21 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bake | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cake | det |
| 24 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bake | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 journey | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bake | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man's mother | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | man's mother not said here | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | man's mother not said here | water | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 4 | bake | might | mother | a cake | man | for man's journey | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary cake=Product for journey=Asset | ||
| 5 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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