The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 60

So they parted, and when she arrived at the city she walked about the streets crying, ‘Who will hire me for a servant?

Who acts: people, girl, streets · What happens: part, arrive, walk, cry, hire · To what, where: city, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, girl, streets), 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	_	3 parted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 parted	nsubj
3	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 arrived	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 parted	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 streets	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 streets	det
16	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walked	obl
17	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 streets	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hire	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 hire	punct
20	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hire	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hire	aux
22	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 walked	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hire	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 servant	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 servant	det
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hire	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 parted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	part	past	people				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	arrive	past	girl		the city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	girl			about the streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the streets not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hire	future		me		for a servant	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for servant=Beneficiary

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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