The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 34

So when the kitchen-maid heard that they were for her, she asked no more questions about the matter.

Who acts: kitchen maid, hoops, Princess · What happens: hear, be, ask · To what, where: more questions

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen maid, hoops, Princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maid	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kitchen	punct
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 her	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 her	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 her	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 questions	amod
18	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asked	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 matter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 questions	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the kitchen maid			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	hoops = hoop		for Princess	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	Princess	more questions	about the matter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about matter=Topic

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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