More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 1

One day his mother went to a rich farmer's house to beg a bottle of straw for herself and Tom. "

Who acts: mother · What happens: go, beg · To what, where: house, bottle

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 farmer	amod
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 farmer	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 beg	mark
13	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bottle	det
15	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beg	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 straw	case
17	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bottle	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 straw	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Tom	cc
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 herself	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	his mother			a rich farmer's house	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	his mother not said here	a bottle of straw for mother					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bottle=Recipient

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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