English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 3

So she told her eldest son one day to take a can and bring her water from the well, that she might bake a cake for him; and however much or however little water he might bring, the cake would be great or small accordingly, and that cake was to be all that she could give him when he went on his travels.

Who acts: widow, bit, cake · What happens: tell, take, bring, bake, be, give · To what, where: eldest son, water, well, cake, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, bit, cake), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 can	det
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 take	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bring	cc
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 water	nmod:poss
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 well	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 well	det
19	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bake	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 bake	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bake	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bake	aux
24	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bring	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cake	det
26	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bake	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bake	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 bring	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 much	cc
31	however	however	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 water	cc
34	however	however	ADV	_	36 water	advmod
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 water	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 much	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bring	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	aux
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 great	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cake	det
42	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 great	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 great	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 great	cop
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bring	conj
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 small	cc
47	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 great	conj
48	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 all	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 all	cc
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 cake	det
52	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 all	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 all	cop
54	to	to	PART	_	56 all	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 all	cop
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 told	ccomp
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 give	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 give	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 give	aux
60	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 all	xcomp
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 give	iobj
62	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	64 went	advmod
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 went	nsubj
64	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 give	advcl
65	on	on	SCONJ	_	67 travels	mark
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 travels	nmod:poss
67	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 went	advcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	widow		widow's eldest son		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring	infinitive		widow's water		the well			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location
4	bake	might	widow	a cake				for bit	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for he=Beneficiary
5	bring	might	bit					accordingly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	the cake					great property	tree rules
7	be		the cake not said here						tree rules
8	give	could	widow		bit				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	go	past	bit						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	travel	present	bit not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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