The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 105

When she had been chased away from her last house by Destiny’s wicked pranks she had taken service with another lady, who told her that it would be part of her daily work to walk to a mountain that overshadowed the town, and, climbing up to the top, she was to lay on the ground some loaves of freshly baked bread, and cry with a loud voice, ‘O Destiny, my mistress,’ three times.

Who acts: wicked pranks, Destiny, lady, house, mountain · What happens: chase away, take, tell, be, walk, overshadow · To what, where: Destiny, last house, service, part, town, top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked pranks, Destiny, lady, house), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 chased	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 chased	aux:pass
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 chased	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 pranks	case
12	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 pranks	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Destiny	case
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pranks	amod
15	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 pranks	acl:relcl
19	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 lady	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lady	acl:relcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 part	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 part	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 part	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 part	cop
31	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 work	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 work	nmod:poss
34	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 work	amod
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 part	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 walk	mark
37	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 mountain	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 mountain	det
40	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 walk	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 overshadowed	nsubj
42	overshadowed	overshadow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 mountain	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 town	det
44	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 overshadowed	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 lay	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 lay	cc
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 climbing	punct
48	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 lay	advcl
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 climbing	compound:prt
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 top	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 top	det
52	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 climbing	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 climbing	punct
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 lay	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 lay	cop
56	to	to	PART	_	57 lay	mark
57	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chased	parataxis
58	on	on	ADP	_	60 ground	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ground	det
60	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 lay	obl
61	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	62 loaves	det
62	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 ground	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	66 bread	case
64	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	65 baked	advmod
65	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 bread	amod
66	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 loaves	nmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 cry	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 cry	cc
69	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 lay	conj
70	with	with	ADP	_	73 voice	case
71	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 voice	det
72	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 voice	amod
73	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 cry	obl
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 Destiny	punct
75	‘	'	PUNCT	_	77 Destiny	punct
76	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	77 Destiny	case
77	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 cry	parataxis
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 mistress	punct
79	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 mistress	nmod:poss
80	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 Destiny	appos
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
82	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
83	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	84 times	nummod
84	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	obl:unmarked
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past · perfect · passive	Destiny's wicked pranks	Destiny		Destiny's last house	time	away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from house=Trajectory
2	take	past · perfect	Destiny	service				with another lady	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	another lady		Destiny				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is a	would	house	part				of Destiny's daily work	tree rules
5	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive						to a mountain result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result
6	overshadow	past	a mountain	the town					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient
7	climb up	gerund	Destiny not said here			the top			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
8	is	past	Destiny			the ground and some loaves of baked bread		lay property	tree rules
9	bake	participle						freshly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	cry speech: express	infinitive	Destiny not said here					with a loud voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme
11	work		Destiny						nom work «act intransitive»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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