The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 76

Then the hostess turned round and whispered something to a maid behind her chair, and the maid left the hall, and when she came back she brought a little old man with her, who had a beard longer than himself.

Who acts: hostess, maid · What happens: turn round, whisper, leave, come back, bring, have · To what, where: something, maid, hall, little old man, beard

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostess, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hostess	det
3	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whispered	cc
7	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 whispered	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 maid	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 maid	det
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whispered	obl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chair	nmod:poss
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 maid	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maid	det
18	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hall	det
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brought	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 beard	det
40	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 had	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	43 himself	case
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 longer	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the hostess			then	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	whisper speech: assert	past	the hostess not said here	something	a maid behind hostess's chair			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to maid=Recipient
3	leave	past	the maid	the hall				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme
4	come back	past	maid					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	past	maid		a little old man		with hostess	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
6	have	past		a beard			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient

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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