More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 100

In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady into a fine shining parlour, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in the world, and that would bring her out of it.

Who acts: daughters, fine, lady, that · What happens: bring, take, shine, give, tell, not break · To what, where: Bull, lady, fine, parlour, beautiful apple, apple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, fine, lady, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 brought	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	nsubj
7	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bull	det
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lady	det
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 fine	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fine	det
18	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 fine	acl
20	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shining	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 apple	det
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 apple	amod
27	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 telling	punct
29	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 gave	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 telling	iobj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 break	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 break	mark
33	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 telling	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 break	obj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 strait	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 strait	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 strait	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 strait	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 strait	det
40	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 strait	amod
41	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 break	advcl
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 mortal	advmod
43	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 world	amod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 world	cop
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 world	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 world	det
47	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 strait	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bring	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 bring	cc
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 bring	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 bring	aux
52	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	parataxis
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 bring	obj
54	out	out	ADP	_	56 it	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 it	case
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 bring	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	daughters = daughter		the Bull			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination
2	take	past	daughters = daughter	the lady		a fine	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into fine=Destination
3	shine	gerund	a fine not said here	parlour					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent parlour=Theme
4	give	past	daughters = daughter not said here	a beautiful apple	lady				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	daughters = daughter not said here		lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not break not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	apple					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
7	is	past	lady			the greatest strait			tree rules
8	is	past				the mortal world			tree rules
9	bring	would	that	lady		world			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out it=Initial_Location

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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