The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 7
Then the second son went to the forest, and his mother gave him a good cake and a bottle of wine as she had to his elder brother.
Who acts: second son, mother · What happens: go, give, have · To what, where: forest, good cake, youngest
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 (second son, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cake | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cake | amod |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bottle | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cake | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottle | nmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 brother | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 brother | amod |
| 29 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the second son | the forest | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | youngest's mother | a good cake and a bottle of wine | youngest = young | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | mother | to youngest's elder brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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