More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 60

So it went on until one day as the girl stood in the hall door, the coachman happened to say to the footman: "Do you know how that girl served me, James?"

Who acts: rest, girl, coachman, you · What happens: go on, stand, happen, say, know, serve · To what, where: hall door, footman, wife · 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 (rest, girl, coachman, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happened	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coachman	det
18	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 happened	nsubj
19	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 happened	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 footman	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 footman	det
24	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
27	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 served	advmod
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 girl	det
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 served	nsubj
33	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 served	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 James	punct
36	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 know	vocative
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	rest				day		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand	past	the girl			the hall door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location
3	happen	past	the coachman						tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the coachman not said here		the footman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to footman=Recipient
5	know in a quote	present · do-support	you					James vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	serve in a quote	past	that girl	James's wife = wife					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute

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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