The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 102

Now the farmer's wife had need of a wench to wash the dishes and to attend to the geese and the pigs, and seeing so dirty a vagrant offered to engage her.

Who acts: wife, need, seeing · What happens: have, wash, attend, see, offer, engage · To what, where: need, dishes, dirty vagrant, wife, wench

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, need, seeing), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wench	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wench	det
10	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wash	mark
12	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dishes	det
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wash	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 attend	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 attend	mark
17	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wash	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 geese	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 geese	det
20	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attend	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pigs	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pigs	det
23	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 geese	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 offered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 offered	cc
26	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 offered	csubj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 dirty	advmod
28	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 vagrant	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 vagrant	det
30	vagrant	vagrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seeing	obj
31	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 engage	mark
33	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 offered	xcomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 engage	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the farmer's wife	need of a wench	now		tree rules
2	wash	to-infinitive	need of a wench not said here	the dishes			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
3	attend	to-infinitive	need of a wench not said here			to the geese and the pigs	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to goose=Theme
4	see	gerund		a dirty vagrant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vagrant=Stimulus
5	offer	participle	seeing				tree rules
6	engage not said to happen	to-infinitive	seeing not said here	wife			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	need			a wench			nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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