The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 99

Then she left Owen, and after a while went into the chamber of her mistress, and spoke to her, but the countess answered her nothing.

Who acts: wife, countess · What happens: leave, go, speak, answer · To what, where: Owen, chamber, wife, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, countess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 left	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 while	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 while	det
9	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chamber	det
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mistress	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mistress	nmod:poss
16	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chamber	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoke	cc
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 answered	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 countess	det
25	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 answered	nsubj
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nothing	nmod:poss
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 answered	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past	wife	Owen			then	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owen=Theme
2	go	past	wife not said here			the chamber of wife's mistress	while	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
3	speak speech: other	past			wife			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past	the countess	nothing				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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