The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 79

So Ian Direach did all things as the fox had told him, and the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh took him for their servant, and for six weeks he worked so hard that his seven mistresses said to each other: 'Never has a servant had the skill to make all bright and shining like this one.

Who acts: Ian, Seven Big Women, fox, seven mistresses, servant · What happens: do, tell, take, work, say, not have · To what, where: things, fox, Ian, each, skill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, Seven Big Women, fox, seven mistresses), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
3	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ian	flat
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 things	det
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Women	det
16	Seven	Seven	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Women	compound
17	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Women	amod
18	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Dhiurradh	case
20	Dhiurradh	Dhiurradh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Women	nmod
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 servant	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servant	nmod:poss
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 worked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 worked	cc
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 weeks	case
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 weeks	nummod
30	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 worked	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 worked	nsubj
32	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 hard	advmod
34	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 worked	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 said	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mistresses	nmod:poss
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 mistresses	nummod
38	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 worked	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 each	case
41	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	39 said	obl
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 each	fixed
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 has	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	46 has	punct
45	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 has	advmod
46	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 said	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 servant	det
48	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 has	ccomp
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 skill	det
51	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 make	mark
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 had	advcl
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 bright	det
55	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 make	xcomp
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 shining	cc
57	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 bright	conj
58	like	like	ADP	_	60 one	case
59	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 one	det
60	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 shining	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ian	all things				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the fox	Ian			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	take	past	the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh	Ian			for Women's servant	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for servant=Beneficiary
4	work	past	fox			week	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	fox's seven mistresses		each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
6	not have	present	fox's seven mistresses not said here					tree rules
7	have	past	a servant	the skill				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient
8	make	to-infinitive	a servant not said here				bright property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	shine	gerund	a servant not said here				like this one	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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