The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 145

Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chicken to eat, and advised her to take great care of the bones, which she did, wrapping them up in a bundle.

Who acts: Sun, chicken, Princess, bones · What happens: leave, give, eat, advise, take, do · To what, where: mother, roast chicken, chicken, great care, bones, bundle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, chicken, Princess, bones), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 Princess	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	acl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chicken	det
13	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chicken	compound
14	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 chicken	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 advised	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 advised	cc
19	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 advised	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 advised	xcomp
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 care	amod
24	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 bones	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bones	det
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 care	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 did	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bones	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wrapping	punct
33	wrapping	wrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 did	advcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wrapping	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 wrapping	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 bundle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bundle	det
38	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wrapping	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past		the mother			before the Princess	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mother=Theme before princess=Location
2	give	past	the Sun	a roast chicken	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chicken=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	the Sun not said here	a roast chicken not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	advise speech: other	past		chicken				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	chicken not said here	great care of the bones				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	do	past	Princess	the bones				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	wrap up	gerund	Princess not said here	bones = bone		a bundle		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bundle=Destination
8	care		the bones					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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