The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 16

Then the girl told how she had taken service in the under-world, and, beside her wages, had brought home with her a little casket, which she would like to set up in her room.

Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, take, bring, like, set up · To what, where: service, world, wages, little casket, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 taken	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taken	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
9	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 under	punct
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 brought	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 wages	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wages	nmod:poss
20	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 brought	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wages	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 brought	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 brought	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 casket	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 casket	amod
29	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 like	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 like	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 like	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 like	aux
34	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 casket	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 set	mark
36	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 like	xcomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 set	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 room	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 room	nmod:poss
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 set	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the girl			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past · perfect	girl	service	the world			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in world=Location
3	bring	past · perfect · passive		girl's wages			with girl; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination casket=Theme
4	like	would	girl	a little casket				tree rules
5	set up not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here		girl's room			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination

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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