The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 91

Then she told all that had happened, and how she had consented to follow the young man who had captured the Golden Blackbird.

Who acts: Maiden, that, young man · What happens: tell, happen, consent, follow, capture · To what, where: Maiden, young man, Golden Blackbird · 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 (Maiden, that, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 happened	det:predet
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 happened	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 consented	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 consented	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 consented	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 consented	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 consented	aux
13	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 follow	mark
15	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 consented	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 follow	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 captured	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 captured	aux
21	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 man	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Blackbird	det
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Blackbird	amod
24	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 captured	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Maiden		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	that			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	consent	past · perfect · passive		Maiden		tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive		the young man		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	capture	past · perfect	the young man	the Golden Blackbird		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=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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