The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 27

But they had a swineherd’s daughter who was even more beautiful than the miller’s daughter, and they gave her a piece of gold to go to the iron stove instead of the Princess.

Who acts: wishes, daughter · What happens: have, be, give, go · To what, where: daughter, piece, iron stove

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishes, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swineherd	det
5	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 swineherd	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 beautiful	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beautiful	cop
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	acl:relcl
13	than	than	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 miller	case
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beautiful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 gave	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 stove	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stove	det
31	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stove	compound
32	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	36 Princess	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 instead	fixed
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	wishes = wish	a swineherd's daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	a swineherd's daughter				than the miller's daughter; beautiful property	tree rules
3	give	past	wishes = wish	a piece of gold	daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	wishes = wish not said here			the iron stove	instead the Princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stove=Initial_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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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