The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 102

‘She comes every Saturday to wash her hair, and in the vessel where she washes she leaves all her rings, and never does she so much as send a messenger to fetch them.’

Who acts: Olwen · What happens: come, wash, leave, send, fetch · To what, where: hair, vessel, rings, messenger, messengers

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olwen), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 send	advcl
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Saturday	det
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wash	mark
7	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comes	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wash	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vessel	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 vessel	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 vessel	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vessel	det
14	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wash	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 washes	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 washes	nsubj
17	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 vessel	acl:relcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 leaves	nsubj
19	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 washes	ccomp
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 rings	advmod
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rings	nmod:poss
22	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 leaves	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 does	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 does	cc
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 does	advmod
26	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 send	aux
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 does	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	26 does	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 send	mark
31	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 messenger	det
33	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 send	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 fetch	mark
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 send	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fetch	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 send	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	Olwen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wash	to-infinitive	Olwen not said here	Olwen's hair	the vessel	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	wash	present	Olwen			tree rules
4	leave	present	Olwen	Olwen's rings		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	present · do-support		a messenger		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
6	fetch	to-infinitive		messengers = messenger		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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