The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 101

For many weeks the mistress shut herself up in her room, and the girl went about her work as usual.

Who acts: mistress, girl, woman · What happens: shut up, go, work · To what, where: mistress, room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (mistress, girl, woman), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weeks	amod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shut	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mistress	det
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	nsubj
6	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 shut	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 shut	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 room	nmod:poss
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 work	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 work	nmod:poss
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 usual	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past	the mistress	mistress	woman's room	week		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	go	past	the girl				about woman's work; as usual	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about work=Location
3	work		woman					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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