More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 3
Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour.
Who acts: Sally, mother · What happens: get, work · To what, where: Source
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sally, mother), 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 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 worked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 worked | nsubj |
| 10 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Mrs. | case |
| 12 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 worked | obl |
| 13 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mrs. | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Sally | Source | from Sally's mother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from mother=Source | |||
| 2 | work | past | Sally's mother | for Mrs. | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mrs.=Beneficiary |
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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