The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 20

But the portress answered roughly that it was no place for beggars, and bade her begone, so the poor girl dragged herself slowly along the road, till a light and the bark of a dog told her that she was near a farm.

Who acts: portress, poor girl, light, Tephany · What happens: answer, be, bade, begone, drag, tell · To what, where: place, Tephany, farm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portress, poor girl, light, Tephany), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 portress	det
3	portress	portress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 place	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 place	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 place	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 beggars	case
12	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 place	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bade	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bade	cc
15	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bade	obj
17	begone	begone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bade	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dragged	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 dragged	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girl	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 girl	amod
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dragged	nsubj
23	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bade	conj
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 dragged	obj
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	23 dragged	advmod
26	along	along	ADP	_	28 road	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 road	det
28	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dragged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 light	punct
30	till	till	ADP	_	32 light	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 light	det
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 told	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bark	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bark	det
35	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 light	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 dog	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 dog	det
38	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bark	nmod
39	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dragged	parataxis
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 told	iobj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 farm	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 farm	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 farm	cop
44	near	near	ADP	_	46 farm	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 farm	det
46	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 told	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the portress				roughly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	portress	no place			for beggars	tree rules
3	bade	past	the portress not said here	Tephany				tree rules
4	begone	infinitive	the portress not said here					tree rules
5	drag	past	the poor girl	Tephany			along the road; slowly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	a light and the bark of a dog		Tephany			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	is	past	Tephany			a farm		tree rules

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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