More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 100

Weeping over her ill-success, the old nurse went to look for Tattercoats; but the girl had been turned from the door by the cook, and had run away to tell her friend the gooseherd, how unhappy she was because she could not go to the King's ball.

Who acts: old nurse, cook, girl · What happens: weep, go, look, turn, run away, tell · To what, where: ill success, girl, door, gooseherd, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old nurse, cook, 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	Weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
2	over	over	ADP	_	6 success	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 success	nmod:poss
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 success	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct
6	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Weeping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Weeping	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nurse	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nurse	amod
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 Tattercoats	case
15	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 turned	aux:pass
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 went	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 door	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 cook	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cook	det
28	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 run	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 run	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 run	aux
32	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 went	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 run	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 tell	mark
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 run	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 friend	nmod:poss
37	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gooseherd	det
39	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 unhappy	punct
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 unhappy	advmod
42	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 gooseherd	acl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 go	cop
45	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 go	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 go	advmod
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 unhappy	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	54 ball	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 King	det
52	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 ball	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 King	case
54	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	gerund	the old nurse not said here			horse's ill success		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the old nurse					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	to-infinitive	the old nurse not said here				for Tattercoats	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tattercoat=Theme
4	turn	past · perfect · passive	the cook	the girl		the door		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from door=Trajectory
5	run away	past · perfect	the old nurse not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old nurse not said here	the gooseherd	horse's friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient gooseherd=Topic
7	not is	could · past	girl				to the King's ball; go property	tree rules

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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