The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 68
Then he gave Dullhead a ship which could sail on land or water, and when the King saw it he felt he could no longer refuse him his daughter.
Who acts: Dullhead, ship, King · What happens: give, sail, see, feel, refuse · To what, where: ship, Dullhead, land
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 (Dullhead, ship, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sail | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sail | aux |
| 9 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ship | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sail | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 felt | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 refuse | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 refuse | aux |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 longer | advmod |
| 26 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 refuse | advmod |
| 27 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 felt | ccomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 refuse | obj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 refuse | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Dullhead | a ship | Dullhead | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dullhead=Recipient ship=Theme | ||
| 2 | sail | could | a ship | land or water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the King | ship | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | King | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | refuse | could | King | Dullhead | long property | tree rules |
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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