The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 76

The young man did as the little hare bade him, and he went to his father’s castle and enquired if they were not in want of a stable-boy.

Who acts: young man, Breton, services · What happens: do, go, enquire, not be · To what, where: little hare bade, castle, want

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 (young man, Breton, services), 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 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 bade	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bade	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bade	amod
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bade	compound
9	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bade	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 castle	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 castle	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 enquired	cc
21	enquired	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 want	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 want	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 want	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 want	case
27	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enquired	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 boy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 boy	det
30	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 stable	punct
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 want	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the young man	the little hare bade			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality
2	go	past	Breton		Breton's father's castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	enquire speech: other	past	Breton not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	services = service		want	of a stable boy	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 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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