The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 20
She spoke so kindly that the girl took heart and agreed readily to enter her service.
Who acts: Mother, girl · What happens: speak, take, agree, enter, service · To what, where: heart, service · 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 (Mother, girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 kindly | advmod |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | advcl |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agreed | cc |
| 11 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 12 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 11 agreed | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enter | mark |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 service | nmod:poss |
| 16 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Mother | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the girl | heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | the girl not said here | readily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | Mother's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 5 | service | Mother | nom service «act transitive»: 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 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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