More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 89

She bade her look out of her back-door, and see what she could see She did so; and when she came back, said she saw nought.

Who acts: mother · What happens: bade, look out, see, do, come back, say · To what, where: back door, nought · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 look	nmod:poss
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	10 door	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 door	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 door	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 back	punct
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 see	cc
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 see	ccomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	19 did	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
31	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 saw	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bade	past	mother		tree rules
2	look out	infinitive	mother not said here	mother's back door	tree rules
3	see	infinitive	mother not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	could	mother		tree rules
5	do	past	mother		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come back	past	mother		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	mother not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	see	past	mother	nought	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nought=Stimulus

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.

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