The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 86
On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen, and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid, to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast.
Who acts: Princess, little boy · What happens: beg, have, be, carry, fill · To what, where: little boy, kitchen, wood, wine cups, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, little boy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wedding | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 begged | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 kitchen | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kitchen | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 kitchen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kitchen | det |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boy | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 begged | conj |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 water | cc |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wood | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 maid | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 maid | det |
| 32 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 maid | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 kitchen | punct |
| 34 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fill | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fill | mark |
| 37 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 carried | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cups | det |
| 39 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cups | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 wine | punct |
| 41 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 fill | obj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 feast | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 feast | det |
| 44 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 feast | compound |
| 45 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fill | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Princess | day | however property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | might | Princess | the little boy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the little boy | the kitchen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | the Princess not said here | wood and water | for the kitchen maid | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 5 | fill | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | the wine cups | the wedding feast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=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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