The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 261

He saw the coffin on the hill, with the beautiful Snowdrop inside it, and when he had read what was written on it in golden letters, he said to the Dwarf:

Who acts: Prince · What happens: see, read, write, say · To what, where: coffin, hill, Dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coffin	det
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Snowdrop	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 Snowdrop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Snowdrop	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Snowdrop	amod
12	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Snowdrop	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 read	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 read	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 read	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 read	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 read	aux
20	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 saw	conj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 written	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 written	aux:pass
23	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 read	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 written	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 letters	case
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 letters	amod
28	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 written	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Dwarf	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Dwarf	det
34	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Prince	the coffin		the hill	with the beautiful Snowdrop inside coffin	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coffin=Stimulus
2	read	past · perfect	Prince					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	write	past · passive				coffin	in golden letters	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on it=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	Prince		the Dwarf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dwarf=Recipient

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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