The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 38

The foals came back in the evening, and then he too got a bit of moss and a bottle of water from the old hag, which things he was to show to the King.

Who acts: foals, Master · What happens: come back, get, be · To what, where: bit

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foals, Master), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foals	det
2	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 got	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 moss	case
17	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bottle	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bottle	det
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bottle	nmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 hag	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hag	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hag	amod
26	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 things	punct
28	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 things	det
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hag	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 show	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 show	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	33 show	mark
33	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 things	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 King	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 show	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the foals		evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	Master	a bit of moss and a bottle of water	then	from the old hag and which things	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Theme from hag=Source
3	is	past	Master			to the King; show 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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