The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40
Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep, but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work, so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them.
Who acts: Maiden eye, course, wife · What happens: have, watch, not do, let, go, enjoy · To what, where: sheep, wife, heather, moors
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden eye, course, wife), 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 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eye | compound |
| 2 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Maiden | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maiden | punct |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 watch | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 watch | mark |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sheep | det |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 watch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 18 do | advmod |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 of | fixed |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 do | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 watch | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 do | xcomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 go | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 enjoy | cc |
| 25 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | conj |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 enjoy | obj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 enjoy | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 work | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 work | det |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 much | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 had | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 pull | mark |
| 37 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 had | xcomp |
| 38 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pull | obj |
| 39 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 out | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 out | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 out | cop |
| 42 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 pull | advcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 moors | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 moors | det |
| 45 | moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 out | obl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 them | case |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 moors | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Maiden eye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Maiden eye not said here | the sheep | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | would | course | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | course not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | wife not said here | idle property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enjoy | infinitive | course not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | pull | to-infinitive | wife not said here | heather | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heather=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is | past | wife | the moors with eyes | out property | 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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