The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 23

It was not long before the mother wanted her own daughter to go to the stream to fetch some water.

Who acts: Gold, mother, own daughter · What happens: not be, want, go, fetch · To what, where: own daughter, stream, water

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold, mother, own daughter), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 stream	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fetch	mark
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	advcl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Gold			long property	tree rules
2	want	past	the mother	mother's own daughter			tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother's own daughter not said here		the stream		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location
4	fetch	to-infinitive	mother's own daughter not said here	some water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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