The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 21

The Queen, however, pretended to be ill, and gave the doctor much money to say that she would never be well again unless she had some of the flesh of the Blue Bull to eat.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: pretend, be, give, say, not be, have · To what, where: doctor, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Queen	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 pretended	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 ill	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ill	cop
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretended	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doctor	det
14	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 money	amod
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 well	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 well	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 well	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 well	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 well	cop
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 say	ccomp
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	advcl
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 flesh	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 flesh	det
32	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 some	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Bull	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Bull	det
35	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Bull	amod
36	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flesh	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Bull	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the Queen			however property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here			ill property	tree rules
3	give	past	the Queen not said here	the doctor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient money=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	would	Queen		again	well property	tree rules
6	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Queen	some			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
7	eat	to-infinitive	Queen not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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