The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 62

But, though many people liked her looks, for she was clean and neat, the maiden would listen to none, and still continued crying, ‘Who will hire me for a servant?

Who acts: many people, girl, maiden · What happens: like, be, listen, continue, cry, hire · To what, where: looks, 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 (many people, girl, maiden), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 liked	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 liked	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 liked	mark
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 looks	nmod:poss
8	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 liked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 clean	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 clean	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clean	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clean	cop
13	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 liked	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 neat	cc
15	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clean	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listen	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 listen	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 listen	aux
20	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 clean	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 none	case
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 listen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 continued	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 continued	cc
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 continued	advmod
26	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 liked	parataxis
27	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 continued	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hire	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 hire	punct
30	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 hire	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hire	aux
32	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 continued	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hire	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 servant	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 servant	det
36	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hire	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	many people	girl's looks			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme
2	is	past	girl			clean property	tree rules
3	be		girl not said here				tree rules
4	listen	would	the maiden			to none	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to none=Theme
5	continue	past			still		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	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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