The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 3

So she told her eldest son ae day to take a can and bring her water from the well, that she might bake a cake for him; and however much or however little water he might bring, the cake would be great or sma’ accordingly; and that cake was to be a’ that she could gie him when he went on his travels.

Who acts: other, ground, cake · What happens: tell, take, bring, bake, be, gie · To what, where: eldest son, water, well, cake, ’, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, ground, cake), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
7	ae	ae	X	_	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 can	det
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bring	cc
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 water	nmod:poss
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 well	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 well	det
19	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bake	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 bake	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bake	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bake	aux
24	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bring	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cake	det
26	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bake	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bake	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 bring	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 much	cc
31	however	however	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 water	cc
34	however	however	ADV	_	36 water	advmod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 water	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 much	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bring	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	aux
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 great	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cake	det
42	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 great	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 great	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 great	cop
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bring	conj
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 sma	cc
47	sma	sma	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 great	conj
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 sma	punct
49	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 ’	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 ’	cc
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 cake	det
53	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ’	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 ’	cop
55	to	to	PART	_	58 ’	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 ’	cop
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 ’	det
58	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	parataxis
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 gie	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 gie	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 gie	aux
62	gie	gie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 ’	acl
63	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 gie	obj
64	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	66 went	advmod
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 went	nsubj
66	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 gie	advcl
67	on	on	SCONJ	_	69 travels	mark
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 travels	nmod:poss
69	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 went	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	other		other's eldest son		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring	infinitive		other's water		the well			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
4	bake	might	other	a cake				for ground	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for he=Beneficiary
5	bring	might	ground					accordingly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	the cake					great property	tree rules
7	is a	past	that cake	a ’					tree rules
8	gie	could	other	ground					tree rules
9	go	past	ground						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	travel	present	ground not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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