More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 92

And when she heard that this girl had left her home to seek service, she said that she would try her, and give her good wages.

Who acts: Witch · What happens: hear, leave, seek, say, try, give · To what, where: girl, service, tree, good wages, Witch · 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 (Witch), 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	_	17 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 seek	mark
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	advcl
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 try	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 try	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 try	aux
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 try	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wages	amod
28	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 give	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past	Witch			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		this girl		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme home=Attribute
3	seek	to-infinitive		service		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Witch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	try	would	Witch	tree		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
6	give	infinitive	Witch not said here	good wages	Witch	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wage=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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