English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 8

She went to the queen, who gave her a canvas bag of brown bread and hard cheese, with a bottle of beer; though this was but a pitiful dowry for a king's daughter.

Who acts: princess, queen, this · What happens: go, give, be · To what, where: canvas bag, princess, pitiful dowry

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 (princess, queen, this), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 queen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 queen	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bag	det
11	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	compound
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bread	case
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bread	amod
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bag	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cheese	cc
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cheese	amod
18	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bread	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bottle	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 bottle	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bottle	det
22	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bread	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 beer	case
24	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottle	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 dowry	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 dowry	mark
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 dowry	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dowry	cop
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dowry	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dowry	det
31	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dowry	amod
32	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 daughter	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 king	case
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dowry	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	princess			to the queen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial_Location
2	give	past	the queen	a canvas bag of brown bread and hard cheese and a bottle of beer	princess		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bag=Theme
3	is a	past	this	a pitiful dowry		for a king's daughter	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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