The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 46

When she came to Mother Holle’s house she wasn’t the least afraid, for she had been warned about her big teeth, and she readily agreed to become her maid.

Who acts: girl · What happens: come, not be, warn, agree, become · To what, where: house, girl, maid

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Holle	compound
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Holle	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 afraid	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 afraid	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 afraid	det
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 afraid	amod
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 warned	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 warned	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 warned	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 warned	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 warned	aux:pass
20	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 afraid	conj
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 teeth	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 teeth	nmod:poss
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 teeth	amod
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 warned	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 agreed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 agreed	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 agreed	nsubj
28	readily	readily	ADV	_	29 agreed	advmod
29	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 become	mark
31	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 agreed	xcomp
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 maid	nmod:poss
33	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 become	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	girl		Mother Holle's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	girl			afraid property	tree rules
3	warn speech: warn	past · perfect · passive		girl		about girl's big teeth	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient about tooth=Topic
4	agree speech: agree	past	girl			readily property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	girl's maid			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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