More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 59

But his wife said she could not hear of the laundry-maid being blamed, for she was the best servant she had and worth all the rest put together.

Who acts: wife · What happens: say, not hear, blame, be, have, put together · To what, where: rest, laundry maid, best servant · 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 (wife), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 maid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maid	det
11	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maid	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 laundry	punct
13	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 blamed	aux:pass
15	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 maid	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 servant	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 servant	case
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 servant	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 servant	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 servant	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 servant	amod
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	parataxis
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 servant	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 worth	cc
26	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 servant	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 rest	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rest	acl
31	together	together	ADV	_	30 put	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	James's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hear	could	wife	all rest	of the laundry maid	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of maid=Stimulus
3	blame	gerund · passive		the laundry maid not said here		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»
4	is	past	wife		for the best servant	tree rules
5	have	past	wife	the best servant not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
6	be		wife not said here			tree rules
7	put together	participle		all rest not said here	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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