English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 27

The third said: “My gift shall be none of the least, as she is a king's daughter, I'll weird her so fortunate that she shall become queen to the greatest prince that reigns.”

Who acts: third, gift, greatest prince, My · What happens: say, be, become, reign, gift · To what, where: none, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, gift, greatest prince, My), 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 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 none	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gift	nmod:poss
7	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 none	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 none	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 none	cop
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 said	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 least	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 least	det
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 none	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 daughter	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	21 daughter	case
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 daughter	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 king	case
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 none	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weird	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 weird	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 weird	aux
25	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 none	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 weird	nsubj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 fortunate	advmod
28	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 weird	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 become	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 become	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fortunate	advcl
33	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 become	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 prince	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 prince	det
36	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 prince	amod
37	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 queen	nmod
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 reigns	nsubj
39	reigns	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 prince	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 none	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 none	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	shall	My gift	none	of the least	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	third		as a king's daughter	tree rules
4	become in a quote	shall	third	queen to the greatest prince		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	reign in a quote	present	the greatest prince			tree rules
6	gift in a quote		My			nom gift «possession 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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