The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

Many days passed during which the girl went about her work as usual, but at length one day the old woman called her and said:

Who acts: Many days, girl, old woman, woman · What happens: pass, go, call, say, work · To what, where: cow · 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 (Many days, girl, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 days	amod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	during	during	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 work	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 usual	case
13	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 length	case
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	obl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 length	nmod:unmarked
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 called	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Many days			tree rules
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	call	past	the old woman	cow	at length one day	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent she=Theme at length=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	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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