More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 69

And he told her mistress he had come to take her from being a servant, and that she should have servants under her.

Who acts: husband, girl · What happens: tell, come, take, be, have · To what, where: mistress, girl, servant, servants · 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 (husband, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mistress	nmod:poss
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 servant	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 servant	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 servant	det
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
22	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
23	under	under	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	husband		girl's mistress			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	husband					tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	husband not said here		girl			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	is	gerund				a servant		tree rules
5	have	should	girl	servants			under mistress	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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