The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 21

They worked hard for many hours, and at length grew hungry, so the young woman was sent home to bring them food, and also to give the horses their dinner.

Who acts: maidens · What happens: work, grow, send, bring, give · To what, where: length, young woman, maidens, dinner, horses

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 worked	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hours	amod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 worked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	conj
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	aux:pass
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 worked	parataxis
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bring	mark
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
27	also	also	ADV	_	29 give	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 worked	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horses	det
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 give	obj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dinner	nmod:poss
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	maidens = maiden				hour	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	maidens = maiden not said here			length		hungry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
3	send	past · passive		the young woman				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	bring	to-infinitive		maidens = maiden					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination food=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	maidens = maiden not said here	maidens's dinner	the horses				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient dinner=Theme

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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