English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 4

So she took counsel of the henwife, who told her to send the lassie to her next morning fasting.

Who acts: queen, henwife · What happens: take, tell, send, fast · To what, where: counsel, queen, lassie · 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, henwife), 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 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 henwife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 henwife	det
7	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counsel	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 henwife	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 send	mark
13	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lassie	det
15	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 morning	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 morning	nmod:poss
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	obl
20	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 send	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	take	past	queen	counsel of the henwife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the henwife		queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	the henwife not said here	the lassie		morning	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lassie=Theme
4	fast	gerund	the henwife not said here				tree rules

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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