More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 29
Then he left her at a great house to be laundry-maid for seven years and a day.
Who acts: friend · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: girl, great house, laundry maid
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 maid | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 maid | cop |
| 11 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maid | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 laundry | punct |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 maid | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 day | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maid | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | friend | girl | a great house | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme at house=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | friend not said here | laundry maid and a day | year | tree rules |
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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