The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 6

Then the fox gave the prince three grains of gold, one of which he was to throw into the guard-room, another into the room where the bird Grip sat, and the third into its cage.

Who acts: fox, bird Grip · What happens: give, be, sit · To what, where: three grains, prince, guard room

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bird Grip), 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	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 grains	nummod
8	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grains	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 grains	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 throw	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 throw	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 throw	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 throw	mark
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 one	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
21	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 guard	punct
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 another	punct
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 room	nmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 sat	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Grip	det
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Grip	compound
32	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sat	nsubj
33	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 room	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 third	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 third	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 third	det
37	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 gave	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 cage	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cage	nmod:poss
40	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 third	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the fox	three grains of gold one	the prince		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient grain=Theme
2	is	past	fox			the guard room another		into the room; throw property	tree rules
3	sit	past	the bird Grip						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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