More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 33
The feathers did the rest, and the lady set great store by her for a better laundress she had never had.
Who acts: feathers, lady, girl · What happens: do, set, not have · To what, where: rest, great store, better laundress
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 (feathers, lady, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feathers | det |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rest | det |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 store | amod |
| 12 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 laundress | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 laundress | det |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 laundress | amod |
| 18 | laundress | laundress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 had | advmod |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 laundress | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the feathers | the rest | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | set | past | the lady | great store | by girl; for a better laundress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by she=Destination | |||
| 3 | not have | past · perfect | girl | a better laundress not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laundress=Patient |
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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