The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 68

And she sent for the girl, and when she saw her, and how beautifully she had dressed her hair, the princess told her she was to come and comb out hers.

Who acts: maid, princess · What happens: send, see, dress, tell, come, comb out · To what, where: girl, hair, maid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maid, princess), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sent	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 girl	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dressed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dressed	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 beautifully	advmod
16	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	19 dressed	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dressed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	aux
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 saw	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod:poss
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dressed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	to	to	PART	_	30 come	mark
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 comb	cc
32	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 comb	compound:prt
34	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 comb	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	maid			for the girl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	maid	girl			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	dress	past · perfect	maid	maid's hair		beautifully property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		maid		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	past	maid				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	comb out	infinitive	maid not said here	maid			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient

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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