The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 63

And the Porcelain Maiden agreed to follow him, and after having given up her clothes, the young man bought a small horse for her, which went like the wind.

Who acts: Porcelain Maiden, young man · What happens: agree, follow, have, give up, buy, go · To what, where: brother, given clothes, small horse

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcelain Maiden, young man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 agreed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maiden	det
3	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Maiden	compound
4	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 follow	mark
7	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 agreed	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 follow	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bought	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 having	mark
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 bought	advcl
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 clothes	amod
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 given	compound:prt
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 clothes	nmod:poss
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 having	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bought	nsubj
21	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 horse	amod
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bought	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bought	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wind	det
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the Porcelain Maiden			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Porcelain Maiden not said here	brother		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	have	gerund	the young man not said here	Maiden's given clothes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	give up	participle				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	buy	past	the young man	a small horse	for Maiden	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for she=Beneficiary
6	go	past			like the wind	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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