The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 68
She went in and gave herself out as a servant, a poor maid who would gladly be engaged.
Who acts: leg · What happens: go in, give out, engage · To what, where: leg, poor maid
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 servant | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 servant | det |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maid | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maid | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maid | amod |
| 14 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 servant | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 engaged | aux |
| 17 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 19 engaged | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 engaged | aux:pass |
| 19 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 maid | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | leg | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give out | past | leg not said here | leg | as a servant | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | engage | would · passive | a poor maid | gladly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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