More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 87

So her mother went to the king and told him she was longing to have a sweetbread from a red calf.

Who acts: mother · What happens: go, tell, long, have · To what, where: King, sweetbread · 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 (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:1270): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 longing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 longing	aux
13	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 longing	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sweetbread	det
17	sweetbread	sweetbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 calf	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 calf	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 calf	amod
21	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweetbread	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Rushen's mother			to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Rushen's mother not said here		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	long	past · progressive	mother				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a sweetbread		from a red calf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetbread=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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