The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 2
The good woman looked so surprised and grateful for this offer that the girl felt rather ashamed, and at that moment would have scrubbed down the house if she had been requested; but her mother only begged her to take the fishing-net out to the bank of the river and mend some holes in it, as her father intended to go fishing that night.
Who acts: good woman, girl, mother, father · What happens: look, feel, scrub down, request, beg, take · To what, where: house, girl, fishing net, bank, holes, river
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, girl, mother, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 surprised | advmod |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grateful | cc |
| 8 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 surprised | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 offer | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 offer | det |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grateful | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 felt | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | advcl |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 ashamed | advmod |
| 17 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 scrubbed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scrubbed | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scrubbed | obl |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 scrubbed | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 scrubbed | aux |
| 25 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 felt | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scrubbed | obl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 requested | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 requested | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 requested | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 requested | aux:pass |
| 33 | requested | request | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 scrubbed | advcl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 begged | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 begged | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 begged | nsubj |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 begged | advmod |
| 39 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 begged | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 take | mark |
| 42 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 begged | xcomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 net | det |
| 44 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 net | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 fishing | punct |
| 46 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 take | obj |
| 47 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 take | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 bank | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 bank | det |
| 50 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 take | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 river | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 river | det |
| 53 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 bank | nmod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 mend | cc |
| 55 | mend | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 take | conj |
| 56 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 holes | det |
| 57 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 mend | obj |
| 58 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 it | case |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 holes | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 intended | punct |
| 61 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 64 intended | mark |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 father | nmod:poss |
| 63 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 intended | nsubj |
| 64 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 holes | acl:relcl |
| 65 | to | to | PART | _ | 66 go | mark |
| 66 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 intended | xcomp |
| 67 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 66 go | xcomp |
| 68 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 69 night | det |
| 69 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 fishing | obl:unmarked |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the good woman | surprised property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the girl | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | scrub down | would · perfect | the girl not said here | the house | moment | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent house=Source | |||
| 4 | request a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | girl | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | girl's mother | girl | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl's mother not said here | the fishing net | the bank of the river | out property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme to bank=Destination | ||
| 7 | mend | present | girl's mother not said here | some holes | river | tree rules | |||
| 8 | intend | past | girl's father | some holes not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl's father not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | fish | gerund | girl's father not said here | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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