English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 35
And then he gave it to the girl, bidding her begone.
Who acts: brother · What happens: give, bid · To what, where: Albert, girl, begone
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bidding | punct |
| 10 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 begone | nmod:poss |
| 12 | begone | begone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bidding | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | brother | Albert | the girl | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to girl=Recipient | ||
| 2 | bid | gerund | brother not said here | girl's begone | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/35/