The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 47

The first day she worked very hard, and did all her mistress told her, for she thought of the gold she would give her; but on the second day she began to be lazy, and on the third she wouldn’t even get up in the morning.

Who acts: girl, mistress · What happens: work, do, tell, think, give, begin · To what, where: girl, gold, mistress · 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 (girl, mistress), 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	3 day	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worked	nsubj
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 worked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 mistress	det:predet
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mistress	nmod:poss
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 did	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gold	det
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thought	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 gold	acl:relcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 began	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 began	nsubj
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 lazy	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 lazy	cop
37	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 began	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 third	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 third	cc
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 third	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 third	det
42	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 worked	conj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 get	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 get	aux
45	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 get	advmod
46	even	even	ADV	_	47 get	advmod
47	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 third	ccomp
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 get	compound:prt
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 morning	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 morning	det
51	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 get	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	girl			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	girl not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	girl's mistress		girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	think speech: other	past	girl				of the gold	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	would	girl	the gold not said here	mistress			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	begin	past	girl			day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is	to-infinitive	girl not said here				lazy property	tree rules
8	not get up	would	girl			morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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