The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 131

There they received all sorts of treasures and riches, three sacks full of gold, and as much silver, and a splendid steed, which bore them home to the palace.

Who acts: preparations, splendid steed · What happens: receive, bear, sort · To what, where: sorts, preparations, treasures

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, splendid steed), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 received	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sorts	det
5	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 treasures	case
7	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorts	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 riches	cc
9	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 treasures	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sacks	punct
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sacks	nummod
12	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 treasures	appos
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sacks	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 silver	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 silver	cc
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 silver	amod
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 steed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 steed	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 steed	det
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steed	amod
25	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bore	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bore	nsubj
28	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 steed	acl:relcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bore	obj
30	home	home	ADV	_	28 bore	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 palace	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 palace	det
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bore	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	preparations = preparation	all sorts of treasures and riches	there	a splendid steed obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
2	bear	past	a splendid steed	preparations = preparation		to the palace; home property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	sort			treasures and riches			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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