The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 231

The old man gave her a basket, and tying it round Frisk’s neck she said to him: ‘Go and find out the best cooking-pot in the town and bring the contents to me.’

Who acts: old man, Rosette · What happens: give, tie, say, go, find out, bring · To what, where: basket, Rosette, neck, Frisk, best cooking pot, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Rosette), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	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	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tying	cc
10	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gave	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tying	obj
12	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Frisk	amod
13	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 neck	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Frisk	case
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tying	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 neck	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
22	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 Go	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pot	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 pot	amod
28	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pot	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 cooking	punct
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 town	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 town	det
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pot	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
35	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 Go	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 contents	det
37	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	35 bring	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	the old man	a basket	Rosette		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient basket=Theme
2	tie	gerund	the old man not said here	basket			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient neck=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Rosette	round Frisk's neck not said here	Frisk		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Topic to he=Recipient
4	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find out	infinitive		the best cooking pot		the town	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic
6	bring	infinitive		the contents	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent contents=Theme to i=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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