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More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 87

The third daughter says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune."

Who acts: third daughter, Mother · What happens: say, bake, roast, go away, seek · To what, where: mother, bannock, third daughter, collop, fortune · 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 (third daughter, 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

detamodnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctccomppunctaclobjdetobjpunctccccompobjdetobjpunctmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootTheDETthirdADJdaughterNOUNsaysVERBtoADPherPRONmotherNOUN:PUNCT"PUNCTMotherNOUN,PUNCTbakeVERBmePRONaDETbannockNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJroastVERBmePRONaDETcollopNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJIPRON'mAUXgoingVERBawayADVtoPARTseekVERBmyPRONfortuneNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 daughterdet
2thirdthirdADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 daughteramod
3daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysnsubj
4sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_7 mothercase
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 mothernmod:poss
7mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysobl
8::PUNCT_10 Motherpunct
9""PUNCT_10 Motherpunct
10MothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing4 saysccomp
11,,PUNCT_12 bakepunct
12bakebakeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 Motheracl
13meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 bakeobj
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 bannockdet
15bannockbannockNOUNNumber=Sing12 bakeobj
16,,PUNCT_18 roastpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 roastcc
18roastroastVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saysccomp
19meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 roastobj
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 collopdet
21collopcollopNOUNNumber=Sing18 roastobj
22,,PUNCT_26 goingpunct
23forforSCONJ_26 goingmark
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 goingnsubj
25'mbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 goingaux
26goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 roastadvcl
27awayawayADV_26 goingadvmod
28totoPART_29 seekmark
29seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf26 goingxcomp
30mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 fortunenmod:poss
31fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing29 seekobj
32..PUNCT_18 roastpunct
33""PUNCT_18 roastpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentthe third daughterwoman's mothervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2bake in a quoteinfinitiveMother not said herea bannockthe third daughter = daughtervn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product
3roast in a quoteinfinitivea collopthe third daughter = daughtervn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient
4go away in a quotepresent · progressivethe third daughter = daughteraway propertyvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5seek in a quoteto-infinitivethe third daughter = daughter not said heremy fortunevn 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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