More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 73

In Norroway, long time ago, there lived a certain lady, and she had three daughters: The oldest of them said to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune."

Who acts: Norroway, oldest, Mother · What happens: live, have, say, bake, roast, go away · To what, where: certain lady, Norroway, three daughters, mother, bannock, oldest · 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 (Norroway, oldest, Mother), 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	_	2 Norroway	case
2	Norroway	Norroway	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Norroway	punct
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 lived	expl
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
11	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lady	amod
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 daughters	nummod
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 oldest	det
21	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 said	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 oldest	nmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Mother	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Mother	punct
30	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bake	punct
32	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Mother	acl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bake	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bannock	det
35	bannock	bannock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bake	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 roast	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 roast	cc
38	roast	roast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 said	parataxis
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 roast	obj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 collop	det
41	collop	collop	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 roast	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 going	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 going	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 going	nsubj
45	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 going	aux
46	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 roast	advcl
47	away	away	ADV	_	46 going	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 seek	mark
49	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 going	xcomp
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 fortune	nmod:poss
51	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seek	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a certain lady		Norroway; there	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location
2	have	past	Norroway	three daughters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the oldest of daughters		Norroway's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bake in a quote	infinitive	Mother not said here	a bannock	the oldest of daughters = old			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product
5	roast in a quote	infinitive		a collop	the oldest of daughters = old			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient
6	go away in a quote	present · progressive	the oldest of daughters = old				away property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	the oldest of daughters = old not said here	my fortune				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme

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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