Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 203
The fairy queen had to go to a neighbouring well, to fetch water for her bath.
Who acts: fairy queen · What happens: have, go, neighbour, fetch · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 a | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 go | xcomp |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 neighbouring | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fetch | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fetch | mark |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | conj |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bath | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the fairy queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the fairy queen not said here | to a | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | the fairy queen not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fetch | to-infinitive | the fairy queen not said here | water | for queen's bath | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme for bath=Source |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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