The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 2

The woman thought that it was his duty to go out to service, and told her husband that he was to take him somewhere.

Who acts: woman, it, Jack · What happens: think, be, go out, tell · To what, where: duty, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, it, Jack), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 duty	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 duty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 duty	cop
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 duty	nmod:poss
8	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 service	case
13	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 take	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 take	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 take	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the woman				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	past	it	Jack's duty			tree rules
3	go out	to-infinitive				to service; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the woman not said here		woman's husband		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	past	Jack			somewhere, take property	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 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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