The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 76

And he sent for the old woman, who by the orders of the head, was waiting below.

Who acts: spadeful · What happens: send, wait, order · To what, where: head

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 (spadeful), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sent	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 woman	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 orders	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 orders	nsubj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 orders	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 orders	det
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 woman	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 head	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 orders	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waiting	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sent	advcl
19	below	below	ADV	_	18 waiting	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	spadeful		for the old woman and the orders of the head	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	wait	past · progressive	spadeful not said here		below property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	order			the head		nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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