The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 52

‘That’s a reward for your service,’ said Mother Holle, and she closed the door behind her.

Who acts: That, reward, Mother, your · What happens: be, say, close, service · To what, where: reward, door · 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, your), 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	11 said	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 service	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 service	nmod:poss
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reward	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mother	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 closed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 closed	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 closed	nsubj
17	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closed	obj
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 closed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a reward	for your service	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a reward			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	close	past	Mother	the door	behind girl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	service		your			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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