The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 8

After they had ridden for about an hour the Princess began to feel very thirsty, and said to her waiting-maid: “Pray get down and fetch me some water in my golden cup out of yonder stream: I would like a drink.”

Who acts: drops, Princess, I · What happens: ride, begin, feel, say, pray, get down · To what, where: waiting maid, water, me, golden cup, drink · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (drops, Princess, I), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 ridden	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ridden	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ridden	aux
4	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 hour	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 hour	advmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ridden	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feel	mark
13	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 thirsty	advmod
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feel	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 maid	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 maid	nmod:poss
21	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maid	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 waiting	punct
23	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Pray	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Pray	punct
26	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 Pray	xcomp
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fetch	cc
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 get	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 fetch	obj
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fetch	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 cup	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cup	nmod:poss
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cup	amod
37	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fetch	obl
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 stream	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 stream	case
40	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	41 stream	advmod
41	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fetch	obl
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 like	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 like	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 like	aux
45	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	parataxis
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 drink	det
47	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 like	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 like	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	45 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	drops = drop				hour		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the Princess						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here					thirsty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past			Princess's waiting maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient
5	pray in a quote	infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get down in a quote	infinitive						down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	fetch in a quote	infinitive		some water	me	my golden cup		out stream	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
8	like in a quote	would	I	a drink					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme

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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