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title: She went to the queen, who gave her a canvas bag of brown bread and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well, with its dependency t
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 8

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7439:49:8
# text = 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.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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