The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 1

Then he went straight to the stable, where the sight of the dead calf told him all.

Who acts: he, sight · What happens: go, tell, sight · To what, where: stable, all, calf, dead calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, sight), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 stable	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 told	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sight	det
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 calf	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 calf	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calf	amod
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 told	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	he			the stable	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the sight of the dead calf	all	calf			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic
3	sight			the dead calf				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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