The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 68

The lovely maiden herself opened it, and so charmed me that I came near forgetting my disguise; but I soon recovered my wits, and begged her to work a fine table-cloth for me, for she is reported to be the best needlewoman in all the country round.

Who acts: lovely maiden, I · What happens: open, charm, come, forget, recover, beg · To what, where: door, me, disguise, wits, maiden, fine table cloth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (lovely maiden, I), 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	3 maiden	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charmed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 charmed	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 charmed	advmod
10	charmed	charm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 charmed	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 charmed	advcl
15	near	near	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 disguise	nmod:poss
18	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgetting	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 recovered	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 recovered	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 recovered	nsubj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 recovered	advmod
23	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wits	nmod:poss
25	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 recovered	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 begged	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 begged	cc
28	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 recovered	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 begged	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 work	mark
31	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 begged	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cloth	det
33	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cloth	amod
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cloth	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 table	punct
36	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 work	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 work	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 reported	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 reported	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 reported	nsubj:pass
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 reported	aux:pass
43	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 begged	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	48 needlewoman	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 needlewoman	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 needlewoman	det
47	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 needlewoman	amod
48	needlewoman	needlewoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reported	xcomp
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 country	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 country	det:predet
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 country	det
52	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 needlewoman	nmod
53	round	round	ADV	_	43 reported	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the lovely maiden	door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	charm	past	the lovely maiden not said here	me				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	come	past	I				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	gerund	I not said here	my disguise				tree rules
5	recover	past	I	my wits			soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme
6	beg speech: request	past	I not said here		maiden			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a fine table cloth			for me	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme for i=Eventuality
8	report	present · passive		maiden			round property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	is a	to-infinitive		the best needlewoman		all country		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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