The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 13

‘At the earliest dawn of day Mirlifiche woke me, and made me take many journeys to the stable to bring her word how her unicorn had slept, and how much hay he had eaten, and then to find out what time it was, and if it was a fine day.

Who acts: me, hay, Mirlifiche · What happens: wake, make, take, bring, sleep, eat · To what, where: me, many journeys, stable, word, unicorn, much hay

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, hay, Mirlifiche), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 woke	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dawn	det
4	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 dawn	amod
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	nmod
8	Mirlifiche	Mirlifiche	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 day	appos
9	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 woke	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woke	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 journeys	amod
17	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 take	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stable	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stable	det
20	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bring	mark
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 word	nmod:poss
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 slept	advmod
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 unicorn	nmod:poss
27	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 slept	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 slept	aux
29	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bring	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eaten	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eaten	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hay	amod
34	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eaten	nsubj:pass
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eaten	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eaten	aux
37	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 made	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 find	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 find	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 find	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 find	mark
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 eaten	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 find	compound:prt
44	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	45 time	det
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 find	obj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 was	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 time	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 day	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 day	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 day	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 day	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 day	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 day	det
54	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 day	amod
55	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woke	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wake	past		me		dawn	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	make	past		me			tree rules
3	take	infinitive	me not said here	many journeys	the stable		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent journey=Theme to stable=Destination
4	bring	to-infinitive	me not said here	Mirlifiche's word			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	sleep	past · perfect · passive		Mirlifiche's unicorn			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	eat	past · perfect · passive		much hay			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	find out	to-infinitive				then; time	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
8	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	hay	a fine day			tree rules
9	word		Mirlifiche				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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