Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 24

At last, little Alice, his master's daughter, saw how he was treated, and she told the cook she would be turned off if she was not kinder to the lad.

Who acts: maid · What happens: see, treat, tell, turn off, not be · To what, where: last little Alice, Alice, cook, maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 Alice	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Alice	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Alice	amod
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 master	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Alice	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Alice	punct
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 treated	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 treated	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 treated	aux:pass
16	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 saw	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cook	det
22	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turned	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 turned	aux:pass
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 told	ccomp
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 turned	compound:prt
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 kinder	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kinder	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 kinder	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 kinder	advmod
32	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 turned	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 lad	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lad	det
35	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kinder	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past				last little Alice		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	treat	past · passive		Alice				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	maid		the cook			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic
4	turn off	would · passive		maid				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	maid				to the lad; kind property	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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