The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 97

The Scullion did as the creature bade him, and the King came with his sword and swung it three times over the bird, and lo and behold! his wife stood before him once more, alive, and as blooming as ever.

Who acts: Scullion, King, wife · What happens: do, come, swing, stand, bloom · To what, where: creature bade, sword

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 (Scullion, King, wife), 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	2 Scullion	det
2	Scullion	Scullion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 bade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bade	det
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bade	compound
7	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bade	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sword	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sword	nmod:poss
16	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swung	cc
18	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swung	obj
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 times	nummod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swung	obl:unmarked
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 bird	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bird	det
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stood	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stood	cc
27	lo	lo	INTJ	_	33 stood	discourse
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 behold	cc
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	27 lo	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 lo	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stood	nsubj
33	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stood	obl
36	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 more	advmod
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 alive	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 more	punct
39	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stood	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 blooming	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 blooming	cc
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 blooming	advmod
43	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 stood	advcl
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 ever	case
45	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 blooming	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Scullion	the creature bade			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality
2	come	past	the King			with King's sword	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swing	past	the King not said here	sword	time	over the bird	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over bird=Trajectory
4	stand	past	King's wife		before King	alive property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5	bloom	gerund	King's wife not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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