The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 20

But day by day the poor maiden grew more and more sad, till at last her mistress begged her to say what was the matter.

Who acts: poor maiden, last mistress · What happens: grow, beg, say, be · To what, where: girl, matter · 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 (poor maiden, last mistress), 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	_	8 grew	cc
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	obl:unmarked
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maiden	amod
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 grew	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sad	cc
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 sad	advmod
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 more	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 begged	mark
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mistress	amod
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mistress	nmod:poss
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 matter	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 matter	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	grow	past	the poor maiden			day	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	girl's last mistress		girl		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl's last mistress not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the matter			tree rules

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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