English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 11

The queen knew from this that the lassie had had something to eat, so watched the next morning and sent her away fasting; but the princess saw some country-folk picking peas by the roadside, and being very kind she spoke to them and took a handful of the peas, which she ate by the way.

Who acts: queen, lassie, princess, country folk · What happens: know, have, eat, watch, send away, fast · To what, where: this, something, lassie, country folk, peas, handful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, lassie, princess, country folk), 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 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lassie	det
8	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 knew	ccomp
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 something	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 watched	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 watched	advmod
16	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 watched	obl:unmarked
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 watched	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 sent	advmod
24	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sent	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 saw	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 folk	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 folk	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 country	punct
33	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
34	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 folk	acl
35	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 picking	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 roadside	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 roadside	det
38	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 picking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 kind	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 kind	cc
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 kind	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 kind	advmod
43	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 saw	conj
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 spoke	nsubj
45	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 kind	parataxis
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 spoke	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 took	cc
49	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 spoke	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 handful	det
51	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 took	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 peas	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 peas	det
54	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 handful	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 ate	punct
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 ate	obj
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 ate	nsubj
58	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 peas	acl:relcl
59	by	by	ADP	_	61 way	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 way	det
61	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ate	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the queen			this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past · perfect	the lassie	something					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	the lassie not said here	something not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	past					morning		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	send away	past		lassie				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	fast	gerund							tree rules
7	see	past	the princess	some country folk					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus
8	pick	gerund	some country folk not said here	peas				by the roadside	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient
9	is	gerund	the princess not said here					kind property	tree rules
10	speak speech: other	past	lassie		peas = pea				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
11	take	past	lassie not said here	a handful of the peas					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
12	eat	past	lassie	the peas				by the way	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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: «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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