The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 64

The little hare brought them both back to seek for the Golden Blackbird, and when they drew near to the castle where it lived the little hero said to the young man:

Who acts: little hare, clothes, castle, little hero · What happens: bring, seek, draw, live, say · To what, where: clothes, castle, young man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little hare, clothes, castle, little hero), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 seek	mark
9	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brought	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 Blackbird	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Blackbird	det
12	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Blackbird	amod
13	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seek	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drew	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 drew	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
19	near	near	ADV	_	18 drew	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 castle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 castle	det
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 lived	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 castle	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hero	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hero	amod
28	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 man	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the little hare	clothes				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	seek	to-infinitive	the little hare not said here				for the Golden Blackbird	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for blackbird=Theme
3	draw	past	clothes			the castle	near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to castle=Destination
4	live	past	castle					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the little hero		the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

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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