The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 79

However, they were strong and willing, and soon learned to make themselves of use to their father and mother, and when they were old enough they went out to service, and everyone was very glad to get them for servants, for they worked hard and were always cheerful.

Who acts: children, everyone · What happens: be, learn, make, go out, get, work · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, everyone), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strong	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 willing	cc
7	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strong	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 learned	cc
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 learned	advmod
11	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 learned	xcomp
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 use	case
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 old	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 old	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 old	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 old	cop
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strong	parataxis
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 old	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 old	acl:relcl
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 service	case
33	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 glad	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 glad	cc
36	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 glad	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 glad	cop
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 glad	advmod
39	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strong	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 get	mark
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 glad	advcl
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 get	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 servants	case
44	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 get	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 worked	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 worked	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 worked	nsubj
48	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	parataxis
49	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 worked	advmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 cheerful	cc
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 cheerful	cop
52	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 cheerful	advmod
53	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 worked	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	children = child		however, strong property	tree rules
2	be		children = child not said here			tree rules
3	learn	past			soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive		children = child	of use; to children's father and mother	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
5	is	past	children = child		enough, old property	tree rules
6	go out	past	children = child		to service; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	everyone		glad property	tree rules
8	get	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	children = child	for servants	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme for servant=Source
9	work	past	children = child		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	children = child not said here		always, cheerful 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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