--- title: Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped it round her sister's head and took her by the hand and they both went out to seek their fortune. Who acts: own daughter, sisters. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Kate Crackernuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/) / 19 # English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 19 Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped it round her sister's head and took her by the hand and they both went out to seek their fortune. **Who acts:** own daughter, sisters · **What happens:** take, wrap, go out, seek · **To what, where:** fine linen cloth, cloth, queen, fortune This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own daughter, sisters), 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:pg7439:43:19 # text = Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and wrapped it round her sister's head and took her by the hand and they both went out to seek their fortune. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Kate Kate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 however however ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 linen linen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 out out ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | queen's own daughter | a fine linen cloth | | | | however *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | | 2 | **wrap** | past | queen's own daughter *not said here* | cloth | | | | round queen's sister's head | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | queen's own daughter *not said here* | | queen | | | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 4 | **go out** | past | sisters *= sister* | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | sisters's 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/20/) - ↑ back to [Kate Crackernuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/43/)