The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 8

‘My son,’ answered the old woman, ‘I am a very poor woman, and soon after midnight I set out for the neighbouring town in order to sell my eggs in the market on the following morning; but I lost my way in the dark, and fell into this deep ditch, where I might have remained for ever but for your kindness.’

Who acts: son, I · What happens: answer, be, set out, neighbour, sell, follow · To what, where: old woman, poor woman, eggs, market, way, dark

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 woman	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 poor	advmod
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 midnight	advmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 midnight	case
22	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 town	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 town	det
28	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 town	amod
29	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 order	case
31	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 town	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sell	mark
33	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	advcl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 eggs	nmod:poss
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sell	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 market	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 market	det
38	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sell	obl
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 morning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 morning	det
41	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 morning	amod
42	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 market	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 lost	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 lost	cc
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 lost	nsubj
46	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 way	nmod:poss
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lost	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 dark	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dark	det
51	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lost	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fell	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 fell	cc
54	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 lost	conj
55	into	into	ADP	_	58 ditch	case
56	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 ditch	det
57	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 ditch	amod
58	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fell	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 remained	punct
60	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	64 remained	advmod
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 remained	nsubj
62	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 remained	aux
63	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 remained	aux
64	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 ditch	acl:relcl
65	for	for	ADP	_	66 ever	case
66	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	64 remained	obl
67	but	but	CCONJ	_	70 kindness	cc
68	for	for	ADP	_	70 kindness	case
69	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 kindness	nmod:poss
70	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 ever	conj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 lost	punct
72	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	My son		the old woman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
2	is a	present	I	a poor woman					tree rules
3	set out	past	I				midnight	for the neighbouring town in order	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	neighbour	gerund							tree rules
5	sell	to-infinitive	I not said here	my eggs		the market on the following morning			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
6	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lose	past	I	my way		the dark			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
8	fall	past	I not said here					into this deep ditch result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result
9	remain	might · perfect	I						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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