The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 28

‘That’s a reward for being such a good little maid,’ said Mother Holle, and she gave her the spindle too that had fallen into the well.

Who acts: That, reward, Mother, spindle · What happens: be, say, give, fall · To what, where: reward, spindle, well · 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 (That, reward, Mother, spindle), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 reward	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reward	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reward	det
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	12 maid	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 maid	cop
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 maid	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 maid	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maid	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maid	amod
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reward	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spindle	det
24	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	too	too	ADV	_	24 spindle	advmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fallen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fallen	aux
28	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 spindle	acl:relcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 well	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
31	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fallen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a reward			tree rules
2	is	gerund				for such good little maid	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	a reward				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	Mother	the spindle	reward		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient spindle=Theme
5	fall	past · perfect	the spindle			into the well result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result

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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