The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 118

After a few weeks the old woman sent for her maid and told her that as her year of service was now up, she was free to return home, but that, for her part, the girl had served her so well that she hoped she might stay with her.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: send, tell, be, return, serve, hope · To what, where: woman, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 weeks	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 weeks	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weeks	amod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 maid	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 maid	nmod:poss
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 up	mark
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 year	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 year	nmod:poss
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 up	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 service	case
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 year	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 up	cop
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 up	advmod
23	up	up	ADV	_	13 told	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 free	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 free	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 free	cop
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sent	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 return	mark
29	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 free	advcl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 return	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 part	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 part	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 part	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 part	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 part	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 part	nmod:poss
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 served	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 girl	det
40	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 served	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 served	aux
42	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 part	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 served	obj
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 well	advmod
45	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 served	advmod
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 hoped	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hoped	nsubj
48	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 served	advcl
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 stay	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 stay	aux
51	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 hoped	ccomp
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 her	case
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 stay	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the old woman			week	for woman's maid	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past				now; year	up property	tree rules
4	is	past	woman				free property	tree rules
5	return	to-infinitive	woman not said here				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	serve	past · perfect · passive		the girl			well property	tree rules
7	hope	past	woman					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	stay	might	woman				with maid	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

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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