The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 26

One day he went to the king and told him that the lamp the brothers had procured was good enough, but they could still get for him something that was far better.

Who acts: Sir, lamp, brothers, that · What happens: go, tell, procure, be, get · To what, where: Sir, brothers, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, lamp, brothers, that), 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	_	19 good	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lamp	det
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 good	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brothers	det
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 procured	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 procured	aux
17	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lamp	acl:relcl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 good	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	ccomp
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 get	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 get	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	obl
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 get	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 better	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 better	cop
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 better	advmod
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 something	amod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Sir			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	Sir not said here		Sir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	procure	past · perfect · passive	the lamp not said here	the brothers				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	the lamp				enough, good property	tree rules
5	get	could	brothers = brother	something		still	for Sir	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Theme for he=Beneficiary
6	is	past	that				far, good 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 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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