The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 3
One day it happened that the eldest son wished to go into the forest to cut wood, and before he started his mother gave him a fine rich cake and a bottle of wine, so that he might be sure not to suffer from hunger or thirst.
Who acts: it, eldest son, youngest, mother · What happens: happen, wish, go, cut, start, give · To what, where: forest, wood, fine rich cake, youngest, hunger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, eldest son, youngest, mother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wished | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cut | mark |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | advcl |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 started | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 started | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 started | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cake | det |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cake | amod |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cake | amod |
| 30 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bottle | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bottle | det |
| 33 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cake | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wine | case |
| 35 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bottle | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sure | punct |
| 37 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 sure | mark |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 so | fixed |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sure | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 sure | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 sure | cop |
| 42 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gave | conj |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 suffer | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 suffer | mark |
| 45 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 sure | ccomp |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 hunger | case |
| 47 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 suffer | obl |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 thirst | cc |
| 49 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hunger | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | participle | the eldest son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the eldest son not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | the eldest son not said here | wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | ||||
| 5 | start | past | youngest = young | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | give | past | youngest's mother | a fine rich cake and a bottle of wine | youngest = young | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | might | youngest = young | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not suffer | to-infinitive | youngest = young not said here | hunger or thirst | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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