The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 77

When it was evening she said to her bridegroom, ‘That stupid maid wants to sleep by your door.’

Who acts: dress, bride, stupid maid · What happens: be, say, want, sleep · To what, where: evening, bridegroom · 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 (dress, bride, stupid maid), 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 evening	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 evening	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 evening	cop
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bridegroom	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bridegroom	nmod:poss
9	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
12	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 maid	det
13	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maid	amod
14	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sleep	mark
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wants	xcomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 door	nmod:poss
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sleep	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dress	evening			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	bride		bride's bridegroom		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bridegroom=Recipient
3	want	present	that stupid maid				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	that stupid maid not said here			by your door	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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