The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 81

When the queen—or, rather, the swineherd’s daughter—heard of this, she very much wished to have the distaff, but the girl flatly refused to give it to her.

Who acts: daughter, girl · What happens: hear, wish, have, refuse, not give · To what, where: distaff, girl

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 queen	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 daughter	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swineherd	det
10	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 swineherd	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 queen	appos
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 this	case
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 heard	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 wished	advmod
21	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 heard	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 distaff	det
25	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 refused	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 refused	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 refused	nsubj
30	flatly	flatly	ADV	_	31 refused	advmod
31	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 give	mark
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 refused	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 give	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 queen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the swineherd's daughter not said here			of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	wish	participle	girl				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the distaff			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Patient
4	refuse	past	the girl			flatly property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not give	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	distaff	girl		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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