The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 3

Every day she gave the Princess a lovely new frock of gold brocade, or satin, or velvet, and when she was hungry she had bowls full of sugar-plums, and at least twenty pots of jam.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: give, be, have · To what, where: lovely new frock, Princess, bowls

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frock	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frock	amod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frock	amod
10	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 brocade	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brocade	compound
13	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frock	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 satin	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 satin	cc
16	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 velvet	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 velvet	cc
19	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 satin	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hungry	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hungry	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 hungry	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hungry	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hungry	cop
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	advcl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hungry	ccomp
28	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bowls	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 plums	case
31	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plums	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 sugar	punct
33	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pots	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pots	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 least	case
37	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 twenty	nmod
38	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 pots	nummod
39	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 jam	case
41	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pots	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Queen	a lovely new frock of gold brocade	the Princess	day	satin or velvet obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient frock=Theme
2	is	past	Queen				hungry property	tree rules
3	have	past	Queen	bowls				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient

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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