The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 71

One day he went to the king and told him that the dove was by no means the best thing that the brothers could get for him; for one day he had heard them talking quietly among themselves, and they had said that they could procure a boar whose bristles were of gold and silver time about.

Who acts: Red, no, brothers, dove · What happens: go, tell, be, get, hear, talk · To what, where: Red, dove, best thing, brothers, boar · 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, no, brothers, 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	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 gold	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dove	det
13	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gold	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 means	cop
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 means	mark
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dove	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 get	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brothers	det
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thing	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 day	nummod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 means	parataxis
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obj
36	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 heard	xcomp
37	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	36 talking	advmod
38	among	among	ADP	_	39 themselves	case
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 talking	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 said	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 said	aux
44	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 heard	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 procure	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 procure	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 procure	aux
48	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 said	ccomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 boar	det
50	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 procure	obj
51	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	52 bristles	nmod:poss
52	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 boar	obj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 gold	cop
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 gold	case
55	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	ccomp
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 time	cc
57	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 time	compound
58	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gold	conj
59	about	about	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Red			day	to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Red not said here		Red		about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	no	the dove not said here			mean property	tree rules
4	get	could	the brothers	the best thing			for Red	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for he=Beneficiary
5	hear	past · perfect	Red	brothers = brother		day		tree rules
6	talk	gerund	brothers = brother not said here				among brothers = brother; quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past · perfect	brothers = brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	procure	could	brothers = brother	a boar				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
9	is	past	the dove				of gold and silver time	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 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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