The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
By-and-by the girl arrived at the farm, and she was engaged to look after the cows and sift the corn as her stepsister had been.
Who acts: girl, stepsister · What happens: arrive, engage, look, sift, be · To what, where: farm, girl, corn
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, stepsister), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 girl | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 farm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farm | det |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 engaged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 engaged | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 engaged | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 engaged | aux:pass |
| 16 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrived | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 engaged | xcomp |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 cows | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cows | det |
| 21 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sift | cc |
| 23 | sift | sift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 16 engaged | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 corn | det |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sift | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 been | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 been | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 been | aux |
| 30 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 sift | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the girl | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | girl | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | after the cows | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sift | present | the corn | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | |||||
| 5 | be | past · perfect | girl's stepsister | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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