The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 109

If there was nothing else for him to do, he said he would fetch wood and water for the kitchen-maid, and that he obtained leave to do.

Who acts: nothing, boy · What happens: be, do, say, fetch, obtain · To what, where: wood, leave · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (nothing, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:3611): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 was	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nothing	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	aux
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 water	cc
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 maid	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maid	det
21	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maid	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 kitchen	punct
23	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 obtained	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 obtained	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 do	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 obtained	nsubj
28	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
29	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obtained	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 leave	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fetch	would	boy	wood and water		for the kitchen maid	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for maid=Beneficiary
5	obtain	past	boy	leave			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive	boy not said here	leave			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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