The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 12

Now one day there was a big fair at the market town to which the farmer meant to go, so he asked his wife what he should bring her from it.

Who acts: big fair, farmer · What happens: be, mean, go, ask, bring · To what, where: wife, fair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big fair, farmer), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 was	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	obl:unmarked
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fair	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fair	amod
8	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
11	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 town	compound
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fair	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 meant	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmer	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meant	nsubj
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 town	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 meant	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 asked	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 was	csubj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asked	obj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 bring	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a big fair at the market town		there	now; day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	past	the farmer				to the market town	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	farmer	farmer's wife				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bring	should	farmer	wife	fair			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination

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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