The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 267

He spoke so sadly that the good Dwarfs had pity on him, and gave him the coffin, and the Prince made his servants bear it away on their shoulders.

Who acts: last, good Dwarfs, Prince, servants · What happens: speak, have, give, make, bear away · To what, where: pity, coffin, last, shoulders · 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 (last, good Dwarfs, Prince, servants), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 sadly	advmod
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dwarfs	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dwarfs	amod
8	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	advcl
10	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coffin	det
18	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servants	nmod:poss
25	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bear	nsubj
26	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bear	obj
28	away	away	ADV	_	26 bear	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bear	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	last				sadly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the good Dwarfs	pity			on last	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
3	give	past		the coffin	last			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coffin=Theme
4	make	past	the Prince					tree rules
5	bear away	present	last's servants	coffin		dwarfs's shoulders	away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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