More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 82

The lady of the castle saw her, and told her, "I'm sorry I have no better place, but if you like you may be our scullion."

Who acts: lady, first · What happens: see, tell, be, have, like · To what, where: first, better place, scullion · 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 (lady, first), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sorry	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sorry	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sorry	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sorry	cop
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	ccomp
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sorry	ccomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 place	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scullion	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 scullion	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 like	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
26	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 scullion	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 scullion	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 scullion	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 scullion	cop
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 scullion	nmod:poss
31	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 scullion	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 scullion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the lady of the castle	first			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the lady of the castle not said here		first		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	the lady of the castle = lady			sorry property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	the lady of the castle = lady	no better place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
5	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	first				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a in a quote	may	first	our scullion			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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