The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 44

Next morning, when the youngest girl did not come to her work, the old woman asked where she was.

Who acts: youngest girl, old woman, sun · What happens: not come, ask, be, work · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest girl, old woman, sun), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 come	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 morning	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 work	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 work	nmod:poss
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 work	conj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 was	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	the youngest girl	sun's work	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the old woman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	sun		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	work		sun		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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