The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 52
Soon after this the year was up, and the girl went to her mistress to tell her that she wished to go home.
Who acts: year, girl · What happens: be up, go, tell, wish · To what, where: girl · 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 (year, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mistress | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wished | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wished | xcomp |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | past | the year | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the girl | to girl's mistress | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mistress=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | girl | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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