The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 74

When the bride heard of this, she came and begged for the dress, and wanted to buy it, saying that it was not a dress for a serving-maid.

Who acts: bride, dress · What happens: hear, come, beg, want, buy, say · To what, where: dress · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bride, dress), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 begged	cc
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 dress	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dress	det
14	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 buy	mark
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wanted	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 buy	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wanted	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 dress	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dress	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dress	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 dress	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dress	det
28	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saying	ccomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	33 maid	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 maid	det
31	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 maid	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 serving	punct
33	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dress	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the bride		of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
2	come	past	bride			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	bride not said here		for the dress	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for dress=Topic
4	want	past	bride not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	bride not said here	dress		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	bride not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	not is a	past	dress	a dress	for a serving maid	tree rules

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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