The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 40

Hadvor at once guessed what it was, and told her maids to be ready to help her.

Who acts: Hadvor · What happens: guess, tell, be, help · To what, where: maids, Hadvor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hadvor), 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	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 guessed	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 guessed	obl
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 guessed	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 guessed	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 maids	nmod:poss
12	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 ready	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 help	mark
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 help	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	guess	past	Hadvor			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent what=Attribute at once=Value
2	tell speech: assert	past	Hadvor not said here	Hadvor's maids		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			ready property	tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive		Hadvor		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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