The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 27

Before her departure for fairyland, the Fairy explained to Jack that she had sent the butcher to meet him with the beans, in order to try what sort of lad he was.

Who acts: Fairy, Giant · What happens: explain, send, meet, try, depart, sort · To what, where: Jack, butcher, sort, lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Giant), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 departure	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 departure	nmod:poss
3	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 explained	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fairyland	case
5	fairyland	fairyland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 departure	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 departure	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
8	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 explained	nsubj
9	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Jack	case
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 explained	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sent	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sent	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sent	aux
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 explained	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 butcher	det
17	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 meet	mark
19	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sent	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 meet	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 beans	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beans	det
23	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 meet	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 try	punct
25	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 try	mark
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 in	fixed
27	to	to	PART	_	28 try	mark
28	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meet	conj
29	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	30 sort	det
30	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 try	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 lad	case
32	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sort	nmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sort	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	the Fairy		Jack	before Giant's departure for fairyland		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to jack=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send	past · perfect	Fairy	the butcher				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butcher=Theme
3	meet	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	Jack			with the beans	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with bean=Instrument
4	try	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	what sort of lad				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality
5	depart		Giant				for fairyland	nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl
6	sort			lad				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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