The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 74

The servants and conceited folk at the big house began to take notice of the beautiful young woman at the lodge, and to annoy her with their impudence.

Who acts: servants · What happens: begin, take, annoy, notice · To what, where: notice, lodge, woman, beautiful young woman

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 folk	cc
4	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 folk	amod
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servants	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 folk	nmod
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 woman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notice	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 lodge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lodge	det
21	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 annoy	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 annoy	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 annoy	mark
25	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 annoy	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 impudence	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 impudence	nmod:poss
29	impudence	impudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 annoy	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the servants and conceited folk at the big house				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take	to-infinitive	the servants and conceited folk at the big house not said here	notice of the beautiful young woman	the lodge		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent notice=Theme at lodge=Asset
3	annoy	to-infinitive	the servants and conceited folk at the big house not said here	woman		with servants's impudence	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	notice			the beautiful young woman			nom notice «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 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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