The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 98

The troll came home soon after this, and his wife told him that her father was come, and asked him to go and buy some beef to make broth with.

Who acts: troll, wife, father · What happens: come, tell, be, ask, go, buy · To what, where: father, beef, broth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, wife, father), 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 troll	det
2	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	cop
18	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 buy	cc
26	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 beef	det
28	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 buy	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 buy	advcl
31	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	30 make	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the troll			after this	home, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	father's wife		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	wife's father				come property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past			father			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	buy	infinitive		some beef				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Theme
7	make	to-infinitive		broth				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset broth=Product

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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