The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 107

He went to the door and found there an old woman with a dough- trough on her back, who said to him that he must go with her at once; his brothers had promised him to her if she would save their lives.

Who acts: door, back, woman · What happens: go, find, say, promise, save · To what, where: door, old woman, brothers, lives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, back, woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 found	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 trough	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 trough	det
14	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trough	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 dough	punct
16	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trough	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 back	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 go	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 promised	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brothers	nmod:poss
35	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 promised	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 promised	aux
37	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 promised	iobj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 promised	obl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 save	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 save	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 save	aux
44	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 promised	advcl
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 lives	nmod:poss
46	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 save	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	door			the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	find	past	door not said here	a old woman		there	with a dough trough on woman's back	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	woman's back		door			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go	must	door				with woman	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		door's brothers	door		to woman	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme
6	save a condition, not said to happen	would	woman	princes's lives				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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