More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 34

Well, one day the butler, who had a notion to have the pretty laundry-maid for his wife, said to her, he should have spoken before but he did not want to vex her. "

Who acts: butler, friend · What happens: have, say, speak, not want, vex · To what, where: notion, pretty laundry maid, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (butler, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 butler	det
6	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 butler	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 notion	det
11	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 notion	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maid	det
15	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maid	amod
16	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maid	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 laundry	punct
18	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maid	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spoken	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spoken	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 spoken	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 spoken	aux
30	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 said	parataxis
31	before	before	ADV	_	30 spoken	advmod
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 want	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 want	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 want	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 want	advmod
36	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 spoken	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 vex	mark
38	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 want	xcomp
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 vex	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the butler	a notion			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient
2	have	to-infinitive	the butler not said here	the pretty laundry maid		for friend's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the butler not said here		girl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	speak speech: other	should · perfect	friend			before property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not want	past · do-support	friend				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	vex not said to happen	to-infinitive	friend not said here	girl			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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