English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 5
So next morning early, the queen said to Anne, “Go, my dear, to the henwife in the glen, and ask her for some eggs.”
Who acts: next morning · What happens: say, go, ask · To what, where: Anne, queen · 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 (next morning), 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 | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 queen | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Anne | case |
| 10 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 13 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dear | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dear | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Go | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 henwife | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 henwife | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 henwife | det |
| 20 | henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dear | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 glen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 glen | det |
| 23 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 henwife | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ask | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ask | cc |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Go | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ask | iobj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 eggs | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 eggs | det |
| 30 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ask | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | next morning and the queen | Anne | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anne=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | queen | for some eggs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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