The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

At length, one day, the girl was bidden by her mistress to come into the kitchen, and when there, the old woman said to her: 'I know you can tend cows and keep a diary; now let me see what you can do besides.

Who acts: mistress, old woman, I, you, me · What happens: bid, come, say, know, tend, keep · To what, where: girl, length, kitchen, wife, cows, diary · 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 (mistress, old woman, I, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bidden	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bidden	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bidden	aux:pass
10	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 mistress	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mistress	nmod:poss
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bidden	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bidden	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 there	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 there	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bidden	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 there	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
33	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bidden	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 tend	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tend	aux
36	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	ccomp
37	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tend	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 keep	cc
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tend	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 diary	det
41	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keep	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 let	punct
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 let	advmod
44	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 know	conj
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 let	obj
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 let	xcomp
47	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 do	obj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 do	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 do	aux
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 see	ccomp
51	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 do	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	bid	past · passive	wife's mistress	the girl		length and one day		tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	wife's mistress not said here			the kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	tend	can	you	cows				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
6	keep	infinitive	you not said here	a diary				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme
7	let	infinitive	I not said here	me			now	tree rules
8	see	infinitive	me not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	do	can	you	besides				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 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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