The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 20

When she had finished this task she would take a walk through the town, so that the poor people might have a chance of speaking with her, and telling her of their troubles; and then she would seek out her father, and together they would consult over the best means of giving help to those who needed it.

Who acts: princess, poor people, chance, people, telling · What happens: finish, take, have, speak, tell, seek out · To what, where: task, walk, town, chance, princess, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, poor people, chance, people), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 take	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 task	det
6	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 walk	det
11	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 have	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 chance	det
24	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 speaking	mark
26	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 chance	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 speaking	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 means	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 means	cc
31	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 means	csubj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 telling	iobj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 troubles	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 troubles	nmod:poss
35	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 telling	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 seek	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seek	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 seek	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seek	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 seek	aux
41	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 telling	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 seek	compound:prt
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 father	nmod:poss
44	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seek	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 consult	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 consult	cc
47	together	together	ADV	_	50 consult	advmod
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 consult	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 consult	aux
50	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 telling	conj
51	over	over	ADP	_	53 best	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 best	det
53	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	50 consult	obl
54	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 take	parataxis
55	of	of	SCONJ	_	56 giving	mark
56	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 means	ccomp
57	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 giving	obj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 those	case
59	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	56 giving	obl
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 needed	nsubj
61	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 those	acl:relcl
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 needed	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	princess	this task					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector task=Eventuality
2	take	would	princess	a walk		the town			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
3	have	might	the poor people	a chance					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	speak speech: other	gerund	a chance not said here					with princess	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund			princess			of people's troubles	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	seek out	would	princess	princess's father			then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
7	consult	would	people			the best		together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	mean	present	telling						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	give	gerund		help	those				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Theme to that=Recipient
10	need	past		help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
11	trouble		people						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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