The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 4

She gave her a waiting-maid also, who was to ride with her and hand her over to the bridegroom, and she provided each of them with a horse for the journey.

Who acts: mother · What happens: give, be, hand over, provide · To what, where: waiting maid, her, mother, bridegroom, each

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. 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.

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	13 ride	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ride	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ride	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ride	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ride	mark
13	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ride	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hand	cc
17	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ride	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hand	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	17 hand	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bridegroom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bridegroom	det
22	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hand	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 provided	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 provided	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 provided	nsubj
26	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 provided	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 each	nmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 horse	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 horse	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 provided	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 journey	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 journey	det
35	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 provided	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	mother	a waiting maid	her = she		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient maid=Theme
2	is	past				with mother; ride property	tree rules
3	hand over	infinitive		mother	the bridegroom		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bridegroom=Destination
4	provide	past	mother	each		with a horse; for the journey	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition each=Theme for journey=Beneficiary

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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