The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 81

The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat.

Who acts: maiden, girl · What happens: tell, find, spin, shine, fasten on · To what, where: girl, maiden, lock, stuff · 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 (maiden, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 found	advmod
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spun	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spun	cc
13	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lock	det
15	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spun	obj
16	into	into	SCONJ	_	17 shining	mark
17	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 spun	advcl
18	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shining	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fastened	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fastened	cc
21	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fastened	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	21 fastened	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fastened	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 coat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coat	det
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 end	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the maiden		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	find	past · perfect	girl	maiden			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	spin	past	the maiden not said here	the lock			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
4	shine	gerund	the maiden not said here	stuff			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme
5	fasten on	past	the maiden not said here	lock		to the end of the coat	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to end=Co-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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