The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 53
The princess gave to each of the maidens her task, and never was mistress better served.
Who acts: princess, mistress · What happens: give, not be, serve, task · To what, where: each, mistress
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, mistress), 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 | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gave | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 maidens | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maidens | det |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 each | nmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 task | nmod:poss |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maidens | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 served | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 mistress | advmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mistress | cop |
| 15 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | nsubj |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 mistress | advmod |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the princess | each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | mistress | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve | past | mistress | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | task | princess | nom task «act 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 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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