The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 47

By-and-by she sent for her again, and gave her maid the black and white yarn to wash in the river; but there was no one to tell her the secret by which the black would turn white, and the white black; so she brought them back as they were.

Who acts: girl, cows · What happens: send, give, mai, wash, be, tell · To what, where: black yarn, river, one, secret, girl, cows · 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, cows), 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	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 one	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 sent	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 one	csubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sent	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sent	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 maid	nsubj
15	maid	mai	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 yarn	det
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yarn	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 white	cc
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 black	conj
20	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maid	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 wash	mark
22	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 maid	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wash	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 was	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 one	cop
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 one	acl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 secret	det
36	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tell	ccomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 which	det:predet
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 turn	amod
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 turn	aux
42	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 the	parataxis
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 turn	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 black	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 black	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 black	det
47	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 black	amod
48	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 turn	parataxis
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 brought	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	52 brought	advmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 brought	nsubj
52	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 one	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 brought	obj
54	back	back	ADV	_	52 brought	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 were	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 were	nsubj
57	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 brought	advcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	girl				again	for woman	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	girl not said here						tree rules
3	mai	past	girl	the black yarn					tree rules
4	wash	to-infinitive	girl not said here			the river			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		no one					tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the secret	girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient secret=Topic
7	turn	would						white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	bring back	past	girl	cows = cow					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	be	past	cows = cow						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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