The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 18

The old woman did not need twice telling, but set off at once for the bridge.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: not need, tell, set off · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 telling	advmod
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 need	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 need	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 set	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not need	past · do-support	the old woman		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	the old woman not said here	twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set off	past	the old woman not said here	for the bridge	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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