English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 10

The queen kissed the child, and, giving it the name of Tom Thumb, sent for some of the fairies, who dressed her little godson according to her orders:

Who acts: queen, fairies · What happens: kiss, give, send, dress, accord, name · To what, where: child, bed, little godson, Tom

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, fairies), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
9	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 sent	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 giving	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giving	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tom	case
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 name	nmod
15	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Tom	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 giving	punct
17	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 some	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 sent	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fairies	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fairies	det
22	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 some	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dressed	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dressed	nsubj
25	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fairies	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 godson	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 godson	amod
28	godson	godson	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dressed	obj
29	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 orders	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 according	fixed
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 orders	nmod:poss
32	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dressed	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the queen	the child		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent
2	give	gerund		bed		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient name=Theme
3	send	past	the queen not said here		for some	tree rules
4	dress	past	the fairies	queen's little godson	accord queen's orders	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent godson=Patient
5	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	name			Tom		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	order		queen			nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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