More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 11

Overjoyed, the maiden ran to fetch her lint, and placed it in her new friend's hand, asking where she should call for the yarn in the evening; but she received no reply; the old woman passed away from her among the trees and bushes.

Who acts: maiden, ne'er, old woman · What happens: overjoy, run, fetch, place, ask, call · To what, where: lint, hand, reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, ne'er, old woman), 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	Overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lint	nmod:poss
9	lint	lint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 friend	amod
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 friend	case
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asking	punct
21	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 placed	advcl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 call	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 call	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 call	aux
25	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asking	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 yarn	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 yarn	det
28	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 evening	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 received	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 received	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 received	nsubj
35	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	parataxis
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 reply	det
37	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 received	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 passed	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 woman	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 woman	amod
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 passed	nsubj
42	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overjoyed	parataxis
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 passed	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 passed	obl
46	among	among	ADP	_	48 trees	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trees	det
48	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 passed	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bushes	cc
50	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 trees	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past						tree rules
2	run	past	the maiden					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fetch	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	ne'er's lint				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lint=Theme
4	place	past		lint	ne'er's new friend's hand			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination
5	ask speech: ask	gerund						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	call	should	ne'er			evening	for the yarn	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for yarn=Recipient
7	receive	past	ne'er	no reply				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme
8	pass away	past	the old woman				from ne'er; among the trees and bushes; away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from she=Causer

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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