The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 110

The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, ‘Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself.

Who acts: girl, day, godmother, clothes · What happens: be, get, go, dream, bend, say · To what, where: ready smart clothes, bed, young ladies, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, day, godmother, clothes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 occupied	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 occupied	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 occupied	cop
11	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occupied	obl:unmarked
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 getting	mark
15	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 day	acl
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
18	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 getting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 went	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dreamed	nsubj
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 dreamed	advmod
31	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 bent	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 godmother	nmod:poss
34	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bent	nsubj
35	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dreamed	advcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bent	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bent	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Dress	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 Dress	punct
42	Dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ladies	nmod:poss
44	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ladies	amod
45	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 Dress	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 feast	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 feast	det
48	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Dress	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 started	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 started	cc
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 started	advmod
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 started	nsubj
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 started	aux
54	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 Dress	conj
55	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 started	xcomp
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 follow	obj
57	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 follow	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl				with girl's fingers; clever property	tree rules
2	is	past				day	occupied property	tree rules
3	get	gerund	all day not said here	fingers's ready smart clothes				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus
4	go	past	girl		bed	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	dream	past	girl				always property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	bend	past	girl's godmother				over girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location
7	say speech: assert	past	girl's godmother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	dress	infinitive		your young ladies			for the feast	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
9	start	present · perfect	clothes					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	follow	infinitive	clothes not said here	clothes			yourself obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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