The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 20

He would be godfather himself, he said, and he ordered a fine christening feast; so the child was brought and christened, and Mark was very friendly to its father.

Who acts: heart, Mark · What happens: be, say, order, bring, christen · To what, where: fine christening feast, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Mark), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 godfather	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 godfather	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 godfather	cop
4	godfather	godfather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 godfather	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 godfather	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ordered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ordered	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ordered	nsubj
12	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 feast	det
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feast	amod
15	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feast	compound
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ordered	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 brought	aux:pass
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 christened	cc
24	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 brought	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 friendly	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 friendly	cc
27	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 friendly	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 friendly	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 friendly	advmod
30	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 godfather	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 father	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 friendly	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 godfather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	heart		godfather property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	heart			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	order	past	heart	a fine christening feast		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
4	bring	past · passive		the child		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
5	christen	participle				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Mark		to feast's father; friendly 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 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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