More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 58

Now the wife had advised them to be intimate with the servants, and so they did as she said, and it was "Good-morning" and "Good-day to you" as they passed in and out.

Who acts: wife, others, building · What happens: advise, be, say, pass · To what, where: wife, Good morning · 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 (wife, others, building), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 advised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advised	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advised	aux
5	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advised	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 intimate	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 intimate	cop
9	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 advised	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 servants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 servants	det
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 intimate	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 said	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	aux
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 said	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advised	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 morning	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 morning	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 morning	cop
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
26	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 morning	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Good	punct
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl:unmarked
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 day	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 day	punct
32	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Good	punct
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 morning	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 day	nmod
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 day	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 passed	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 passed	nsubj
40	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
41	in	in	ADV	_	40 passed	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 out	cc
43	out	out	ADV	_	41 in	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the wife	now		tree rules
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wife not said here			with the servants; intimate property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	others = other				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	past	building	Good morning and Good day to you			tree rules
5	pass	past	others = other				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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