The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 60
So the girl thanked her, and set out for a farm at a little distance, where she was engaged to milk the cows and sift the corn.
Who acts: girl · What happens: thank, set out, engage, sift · To what, where: woman, corn
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 (girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 farm | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 farm | det |
| 12 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 engaged | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 engaged | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 engaged | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 engaged | aux:pass |
| 21 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 distance | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 milk | mark |
| 23 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 engaged | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cows | det |
| 25 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 milk | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sift | cc |
| 27 | sift | sift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 engaged | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 corn | det |
| 29 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sift | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the girl | woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | the girl not said here | for a farm; at a little distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | engage | past · passive | woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer milk=Result | |||||
| 4 | sift | present | the corn | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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 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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