The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 86

There was a nurse in readiness, whom the wise woman had provided, and preparations were made for her living with the child, quite alone, in a secluded wing of the castle, looking out on the pleasure-park.

Who acts: nurse, wise woman, woman · What happens: be, provide, make, look out, live · To what, where: readiness, preparations, secluded wing, pleasure park

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, wise woman, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nurse	det
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 readiness	case
6	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 provided	punct
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 provided	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 provided	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 provided	aux
13	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 readiness	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 provided	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 living	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 living	nmod:poss
21	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 child	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 living	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 alone	punct
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 alone	advmod
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wing	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 wing	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wing	det
31	secluded	secluded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wing	amod
32	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 castle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 castle	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wing	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looking	punct
37	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 made	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 looking	compound:prt
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 park	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 park	det
41	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 park	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 pleasure	punct
43	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looking	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a nurse		readiness; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in readiness=Location
2	provide	past · perfect	the wise woman	readiness			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
3	make	past · passive		preparations	a secluded wing of the castle	for woman's living with the child; alone property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for living=Asset
4	look out	gerund			the pleasure park		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	live		woman			with the child	nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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