The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 76

In the meantime his service was drawing near to an end, and in three more days the year was up, and he would be able to get his reward and leave the witch.

Who acts: service, fox · What happens: draw, be, get, leave, service, reward · To what, where: meantime, reward, witch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service, fox), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawing	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 service	nmod:poss
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawing	aux
7	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	near	near	ADV	_	7 drawing	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 days	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 days	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drawing	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 days	appos
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 up	cop
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 year	compound
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 able	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 able	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 able	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drawing	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 reward	nmod:poss
31	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 leave	cc
33	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 get	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 witch	det
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	fox's service		the meantime	to a end; day	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in meantime=Destination
2	is	would	fox				able property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	fox not said here	fox's reward				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
4	leave	infinitive	fox not said here	the witch				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
5	service		fox					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	reward		fox					nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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