The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 98

“With pleasure,” she answered, for she had always been taught to be polite; and getting her needle and thread she began to fit the pieces.

Who acts: great many · What happens: answer, teach, be, get, begin, fit · To what, where: great many, needle, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	3 pleasure	case
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taught	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 taught	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taught	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 taught	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 taught	aux:pass
14	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 answered	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	17 polite	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 polite	cop
17	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 taught	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
20	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 began	csubj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 needle	nmod:poss
22	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 getting	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thread	cc
24	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needle	conj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fit	mark
28	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pieces	det
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fit	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	great many = many		with pleasure	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		great many = many	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	to-infinitive	great many = many not said here		polite property	tree rules
4	get	gerund		great many's needle and thread		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer needle=Stimulus
5	begin	past	great many = many			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	fit	to-infinitive	great many = many not said here	the pieces		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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