English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 37

The hump-backed princess, perceiving that her sister had been so lucky in seeking her fortune, wanted to do the same; so she told her mother, and all preparations were made, and she was furnished with rich dresses, and with sugar, almonds, and sweetmeats, in great quantities, and a large bottle of Malaga sack.

Who acts: backed princess, sister, princess · What happens: back, perceive, be, seek, want, do · To what, where: fortune, same, mother, preparations, princess · 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 (backed princess, sister, princess), 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	5 princess	det
2	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 backed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hump	punct
4	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 perceiving	punct
7	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 princess	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lucky	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lucky	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lucky	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lucky	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 lucky	advmod
14	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 perceiving	ccomp
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 seeking	mark
16	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lucky	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fortune	nmod:poss
18	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lucky	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 same	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 do	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 told	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	iobj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 made	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 preparations	det
34	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 made	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux:pass
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 told	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 furnished	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 furnished	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 furnished	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 furnished	aux:pass
41	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 made	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 dresses	case
43	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 dresses	amod
44	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 furnished	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sugar	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sugar	cc
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 sugar	case
48	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 almonds	punct
50	almonds	almond	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sugar	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sweetmeats	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sweetmeats	cc
53	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sugar	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 quantities	punct
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 quantities	case
56	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 quantities	amod
57	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sugar	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 bottle	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 bottle	cc
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 bottle	det
61	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 bottle	amod
62	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sugar	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 sack	case
64	Malaga	Malaga	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 sack	compound
65	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 bottle	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	back	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	perceive	gerund	the backed princess not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past · perfect	princess's sister			lucky property	tree rules
4	seek	gerund	princess's sister not said here	princess's fortune			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
5	want	past	princess's sister not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess's sister not said here	the same			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	past	princess		princess's mother	with sugar and almonds and sweetmeats and great quantities and a large bottle of Malaga sack	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
8	make	past · passive		all preparations			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
9	furnish	past · passive		princess		with rich dresses	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with dress=Theme

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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