More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 75

Now one girl wanted to go to service, and her mother said she might if she could find a place.

Who acts: one girl, mother, Swaffham · What happens: want, go, say, find · To what, where: service, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one girl, mother, Swaffham), 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	4 wanted	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girl	nummod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 service	case
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 might	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	one girl			now	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	one girl not said here		service		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to service=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Swaffham's mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find a condition, not said to happen	could	Swaffham	a place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic

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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