More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 73

But the queen died, leaving only one bonny girl, and she told her on her death-bed: "My dear, after I am gone, there will come to you a little red calf, and whenever you want anything, speak to it, and it will give it you."

Who acts: queen, girl, calf · What happens: die, leave, tell, be, come, want · To what, where: one bonny girl, girl, death bed, little red calf, anything, calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, girl, calf), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 died	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaving	punct
6	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 died	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 girl	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 girl	nummod
9	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	compound
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 bed	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bed	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bed	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 death	punct
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 dear	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 dear	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dear	nmod:poss
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gone	punct
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 gone	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gone	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dear	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 come	expl
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 gone	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 calf	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 calf	amod
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 calf	amod
39	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 speak	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 speak	cc
42	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 want	advmod
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 want	nsubj
44	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 speak	advcl
45	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 want	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 want	punct
47	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dear	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 speak	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 give	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 give	cc
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 give	aux
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	parataxis
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	obj
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 give	iobj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 give	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	the queen					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave	gerund	the queen not said here	one bonny girl				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	queen		girl	queen's death bed		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	queen				gone property	tree rules
5	come in a quote	future		a little red calf	girl	there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
6	want in a quote	present	girl	anything			whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
7	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	queen not said here		calf			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent
8	give in a quote	future	calf	bed	girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=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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