The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 68

I was the laborer’s wife, and was a good nurse, and the Queen gave you into my charge, and told me all her misfortunes, and then died before she had time to say what was to become of you.

Who acts: I, Queen, my · What happens: be, give, tell, die, have, say · To what, where: wife, good nurse, you, charge, misfortunes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Queen, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wife	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 laborer	det
4	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 laborer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nurse	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nurse	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nurse	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nurse	amod
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 charge	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 charge	nmod:poss
21	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 misfortunes	det:predet
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 misfortunes	nmod:poss
28	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 died	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 died	advmod
32	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	conj
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 died	advcl
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 say	mark
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 time	acl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 become	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 become	aux
41	to	to	PART	_	42 become	mark
42	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 say	ccomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 become	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	the laborer's wife and a good nurse					tree rules
2	is a	past	I not said here	a good nurse					tree rules
3	give	past	the Queen		you	my charge			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen not said here		Queen's misfortunes				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient misfortune=Topic
5	die	past	the Queen not said here				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	have	past	Queen				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Queen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	become	past						of you	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	charge		my						nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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