The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 53

‘And thereupon she despatched six jays, who were her pages, to fetch me all sorts of biscuits, while some of the other birds brought ripe fruits.

Who acts: meadow, six jays, some · What happens: despatch, be, fetch, bring, sort · To what, where: six jays, pages, sorts, me, ripe fruits, biscuits

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 (meadow, six jays, some), 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	_	15 fetch	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 despatched	cc
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	5 despatched	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 despatched	nsubj
5	despatched	despatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	advcl
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 jays	nummod
7	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 despatched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pages	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 pages	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pages	cop
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pages	nmod:poss
12	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jays	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fetch	mark
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sorts	det
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fetch	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 biscuits	case
20	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sorts	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brought	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 brought	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 brought	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 birds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birds	amod
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 some	nmod
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	conj
29	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fruits	amod
30	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 brought	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	despatch	past	meadow	six jays and meadow's pages		thereupon property	tree rules
2	is a	past	six jays and meadow's pages	meadow's pages			tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive		all sorts of biscuits	me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary sort=Theme
4	bring	past	some	ripe fruits			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
5	sort			biscuits			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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