The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 17

So the maid followed her into the wood and watched, and saw how the step-daughter took the cloth out of the Blue Bull’s ear, and spread it out, and how the cloth was then covered with the most delicate dishes, which the step-daughter ate and regaled herself with.

Who acts: maid, step daughter · What happens: follow, watch, see, take, spread out, cover · To what, where: Queen, wood, cloth, ear, delicate dishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, step daughter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 followed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maid	det
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 followed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 followed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 watched	cc
10	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watched	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 took	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
16	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 step	punct
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cloth	det
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	28 ear	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 ear	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Bull	det
25	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Bull	amod
26	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ear	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Bull	case
28	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spread	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spread	cc
31	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spread	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	31 spread	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 covered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 covered	cc
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 covered	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cloth	det
38	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 covered	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 covered	aux:pass
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 covered	advmod
41	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 watched	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	46 dishes	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 dishes	det
44	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	45 delicate	advmod
45	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 dishes	amod
46	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 covered	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 ate	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 ate	obj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 daughter	det
50	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 daughter	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 step	punct
52	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 ate	nsubj
53	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dishes	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 regaled	cc
55	regaled	regale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 ate	conj
56	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 regaled	obj
57	with	with	ADP	_	55 regaled	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the maid	Queen	the wood			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into wood=Trajectory
2	watch	past	the maid not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the maid not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	take	past	the step daughter	the cloth	the Blue Bull's ear			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme out ear=Initial_Location
5	spread out	past	the maid not said here	cloth				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	cover	past · passive		the cloth		then	with the delicate dishes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dish=Theme
7	eat	past	the step daughter	the delicate dishes				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
8	regale	past	the step daughter not said here	Queen				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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