The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 62

She finished her work much quicker than she expected and the bride said she was to be sure to come to the church and see her in her wedding dress.

Who acts: dressmaker, bride · What happens: finish, expect, say, be, come, see · To what, where: work, church, dressmaker, wedding dress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressmaker, bride), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 work	nmod:poss
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finished	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 quicker	advmod
6	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 finished	advmod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 expected	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 expected	nsubj
9	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quicker	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bride	det
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	conj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sure	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sure	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	18 sure	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sure	cop
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sure	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 church	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 church	det
23	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 dress	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 dress	nmod:poss
29	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dress	compound
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past	dressmaker	dressmaker's work		quick property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality
2	expect	past	dressmaker				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the bride				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	dressmaker			sure property	tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive	dressmaker not said here		the church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	dressmaker not said here	dressmaker	dressmaker's wedding dress		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
7	work		dressmaker				nom work «act intransitive»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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