The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 74

On the first Thursday night after this, a beautiful maiden came into the kitchen of the palace, and begged the kitchen-maid, who slept there, to lend her a brush.

Who acts: beautiful maiden, kitchen maid · What happens: come, beg, sleep, lend · To what, where: kitchen, kitchen maid, brush, maid

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful maiden, kitchen maid), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 night	amod
4	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 night	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 night	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	amod
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kitchen	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maid	det
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 maid	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 kitchen	punct
25	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begged	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slept	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 slept	nsubj
28	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 maid	acl:relcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 slept	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lend	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 lend	mark
32	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begged	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lend	iobj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 brush	det
35	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lend	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	a beautiful maiden			the kitchen of the palace	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location
2	beg speech: request	past	a beautiful maiden not said here		the kitchen maid			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient
3	sleep	past	the kitchen maid			there		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lend	to-infinitive	a beautiful maiden not said here	a brush	maid			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient brush=Theme

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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