--- title: The third daughter says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The third daughter says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." Who acts: third daughter, Mother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third daughter, Mother), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:16:87 # text = The third daughter says to her mother: "Mother, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm going away to seek my fortune." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bake bake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bannock bannock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 roast roast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 collop collop NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the third daughter | | woman's mother | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | a bannock | the third daughter *= daughter* | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary bannock=Product | | 3 | **roast** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a collop | the third daughter *= daughter* | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary collop=Patient | | 4 | **go away** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the third daughter *= daughter* | | | | | away *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the third daughter *= daughter* *not said here* | my fortune | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/88/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)