The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 63

And they went on beating till the woman called to her eldest daughter: ‘Go and fetch your cousin from the bathroom.

Who acts: words · What happens: go, call, fetch · To what, where: beating, woman, eldest daughter, cousin, bathroom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 beating	case
5	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 woman	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
16	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fetch	cc
18	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Go	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cousin	nmod:poss
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 bathroom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bathroom	det
23	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fetch	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	words = word			beating	till the woman	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on beating=Location
2	call	participle		the woman not said here	woman's eldest daughter			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient
3	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive		your cousin		the bathroom		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cousin=Theme from bathroom=Source

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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