More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 104

In the morning they took the lady into a fine and rich room, and gave her the finest pear she had ever seen, bidding her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal could be in, and that would get her out of it.

Who acts: daughters, lady, that · What happens: take, give, see, bid, not break, be · To what, where: lady, fine room, finest pear, pear, greatest strait, strait

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, 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	5 took	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 room	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rich	cc
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fine	conj
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pear	det
19	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 pear	amod
20	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 pear	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bidding	punct
26	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 gave	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bidding	obj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 break	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 break	mark
30	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bidding	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 break	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 strait	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 strait	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 strait	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 strait	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 strait	det
37	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 strait	amod
38	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 break	obl
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 mortal	advmod
40	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 strait	amod
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 in	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 in	cop
43	in	in	ADV	_	40 mortal	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 get	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 get	cc
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 get	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	conj
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	obj
50	out	out	ADP	_	52 it	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	daughters = daughter	the lady		a fine room	morning		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into room=Destination
2	give	past	daughters = daughter not said here	the finest pear	lady				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pear=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	lady	the finest pear not said here			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pear=Stimulus
4	bid	gerund	daughters = daughter not said here	lady					tree rules
5	not break	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	pear					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
6	is	past	lady			the greatest strait			tree rules
7	is	could						in property	tree rules
8	get	would	that	lady		strait			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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