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title: But the queen died, leaving only one bonny girl, and she told her on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the queen died, leaving only one bonny girl, and she told her on her death-bed: "My dear, after I am gone, there will come to you a little red calf, and whenever you want anything, speak to it, and it will give it you." Who acts: queen, girl, calf. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Jos
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 73

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But the queen died, leaving only one bonny girl, and she told her on her death-bed: "My dear, after I am gone, there will come to you a little red calf, and whenever you want anything, speak to it, and it will give it you."

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**Who acts:** queen, girl, calf · **What happens:** die, leave, tell, be, come, want · **To what, where:** one bonny girl, girl, death bed, little red calf, anything, calf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, girl, calf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:28:73
# text = But the queen died, leaving only one bonny girl, and she told her on her death-bed: "My dear, after I am gone, there will come to you a little red calf, and whenever you want anything, speak to it, and it will give it you."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
45	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
47	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | the queen *not said here* | one bonny girl |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  | girl | queen's death bed |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | queen |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | future |  | a little red calf | girl | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | girl | anything |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | queen *not said here* |  | calf |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | future | calf | bed | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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