The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 70
So she was taken on as a kitchen-maid for very small wages.
What happens: take on · To what, where: leg
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 maid | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 maid | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kitchen | punct |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wages | case |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wages | amod |
| 14 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take on | past · passive | leg | as a kitchen maid; for small wages | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as maid=Attribute |
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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