The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 42

One day he had heard them say that if they liked they could get for the king a wonderful dove which had a feather of gold and a feather of silver time about.

Who acts: Red, brothers, wonderful dove · What happens: hear, say, like, get, have · To what, where: wonderful dove, feather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red, brothers, wonderful dove), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 liked	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 liked	nsubj
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 get	advcl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dove	det
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dove	amod
20	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dove	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 feather	det
24	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feather	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 feather	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 feather	det
29	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feather	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	compound
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feather	nmod
33	about	about	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Red		day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	brothers = brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like a condition, not said to happen	past	brothers = brother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	get	could	brothers = brother	a wonderful dove		for the king	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dove=Theme for king=Beneficiary
5	have	past	a wonderful dove	a feather of gold and a feather of silver time		about property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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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