The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 13

He got up and went to see for himself, and when he saw that it was true and no mistake, he accepted his fate, proposed to the widow, and they were married at once.

Who acts: man, boot · What happens: get up, go, see, be, accept, propose · To what, where: fate, widow, girls

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boot), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 see	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 true	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 true	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 saw	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mistake	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 mistake	det
21	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 true	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accepted	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 accepted	nsubj
24	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fate	nmod:poss
26	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accepted	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proposed	punct
28	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fate	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 widow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 widow	det
31	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proposed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 married	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 married	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 married	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 married	aux:pass
36	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 accepted	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 married	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get up	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	past	man not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	to-infinitive	man not said here			for man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	past	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	boot			true property	tree rules
6	accept	past	man	man's fate			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme
7	propose	participle		man's fate not said here	the widow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to widow=Recipient
8	marry	past · passive		girls = girl			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	fate		man				nom fate «event 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 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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