The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 67

The girl, wishing to please her brothers, plucked the twelve flowers, meaning to present one to each of them as they sat at supper.

Who acts: girl, brothers · What happens: wish, please, pluck, mean, present, sit · To what, where: brothers, twelve flowers, one, each, supper

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, brothers), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plucked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wishing	punct
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 girl	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 please	mark
6	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wishing	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 please	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girl	punct
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 flowers	nummod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plucked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meaning	punct
15	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 plucked	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 present	mark
17	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 meaning	xcomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 present	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 present	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 each	nmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sat	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 present	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 supper	case
27	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	wish	gerund	the girl not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	girl's brothers			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer
3	pluck	past	the girl	the twelve flowers			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	mean	gerund	the girl not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	present not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	one	each		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to each=Recipient
6	sit	past	brothers = brother			supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=Location

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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