The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 49

At last he asked the Fowler if he were married, and on hearing that he was he bade him take the bird home with him and tell his wife to cook it.

Who acts: Bird · What happens: ask, marry, be, take, tell, cook · To what, where: Fowler, last, Bird, bade, hearing, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bird), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fowler	det
6	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 married	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 married	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 married	aux:pass
10	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asked	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 hearing	case
14	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 bade	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bade	cop
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	nsubj
19	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hearing	appos
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	obj
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bird	det
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	home	home	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 cook	mark
32	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cook	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Bird	the Fowler		last		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent fowler=Recipient clause=Topic
2	marry a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Bird				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past	Bird	bade				tree rules
4	take	present		the bird		hearing	with Bird; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on hearing=Destination
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			Bird's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
6	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive		bade				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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