The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 115

‘She told me of a house a distance off where I would get a woman who would take care of it.

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: tell, get, take · To what, where: distance, me, woman, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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	_	3 told	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 distance	det
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	14 get	mark
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 get	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 distance	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 take	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 woman	acl:relcl
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	woman	a distance	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient distance=Topic
2	get	would	I	a woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	take	would	a woman	care		of castle	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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