The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 13

Then he gave her someone for a guide, who walked near her and said nothing, but he brought her in two hours to her house.

Who acts: king · What happens: give, walk, say, bring · To what, where: someone, lassie, nothing, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 gave	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 guide	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guide	det
8	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 someone	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	nsubj
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hours	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hours	nummod
24	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brought	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 house	nmod:poss
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	king	someone	lassie		then	for a guide	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient someone=Theme for guide=Asset
2	walk	past						near lassie	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	king not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	bring	past	king	lassie		lassie's house	hour		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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