More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 14

But this time the young lord followed her, and watched her change her fine dress of feathers for her catskin dress, and then he knew her for his own scullery-maid.

Who acts: young lord, lord · What happens: follow, watch, change, know · To what, where: truth, fine dress

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lord, lord), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 followed	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lord	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lord	amod
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 watched	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 watched	cc
11	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 followed	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 change	nmod:poss
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 watched	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dress	nmod:poss
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dress	amod
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 feathers	case
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dress	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 dress	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dress	nmod:poss
21	catskin	catskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dress	compound
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 knew	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 watched	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 maid	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 maid	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 maid	amod
32	scullery	scullery	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 maid	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 scullery	punct
34	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the young lord	truth	time		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	watch	past	the young lord not said here				tree rules
3	change	infinitive	the young lord not said here	truth's fine dress of feathers		for truth's catskin dress	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme for dress=Co-Theme
4	know	past	lord	truth	then	for lord's own scullery maid	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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