Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 7

But the queen said, ‘I will have the fairies also, that they might be kind and good to our little daughter.’

Who acts: queen, I, fairies · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, I, fairies), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairies	det
11	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	also	also	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kind	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 kind	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kind	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 kind	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 kind	cop
18	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 have	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 good	cc
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kind	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	amod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	future	I	the fairies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient
3	is	might	fairies = fairy		to our little daughter; kind property	tree rules
4	be		fairies = fairy not said here			tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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