The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 23

‘The next morning, as soon as it was light, one of the servants at the castle, who had managed to escape, came to tell the poor lady of the sad fate of her husband and her pretty babes.

Who acts: nurse, castle, next morning · What happens: be, manage, escape, come, tell, fate · To what, where: poor lady, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, castle, next morning), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 light	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 light	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 light	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 light	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 light	cop
11	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 light	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 servants	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 servants	det
16	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 servants	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 managed	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 managed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 managed	aux
23	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 castle	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 escape	mark
25	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lady	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lady	amod
32	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 fate	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fate	det
35	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fate	amod
36	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lady	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 husband	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 husband	nmod:poss
39	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fate	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 babes	cc
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 babes	nmod:poss
42	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 babes	amod
43	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 husband	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	nurse			light, soon property	tree rules
2	manage	past · perfect	the castle				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	escape	to-infinitive	the castle not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the next morning				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the next morning not said here		the poor lady of the sad fate of Beanstalk's husband and Beanstalk's pretty babes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
6	fate			Beanstalk's husband and Beanstalk's pretty babes			nom fate «event 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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