The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 95

A maid came in to comb out her long hair, and brought the finest linen for her use; but nothing gave Elsa so much joy as the little pair of embroidered shoes that she held in her hand, for the girl had hitherto been forced to run about barefoot by her cruel stepmother.

Who acts: maid, nothing, embroidered shoes, girl · What happens: come in, comb out, bring, give, embroider, hold · To what, where: long hair, finest linen, much joy, Elsa, hand, girl

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 (maid, nothing, embroidered shoes, girl), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 comb	mark
6	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 comb	compound:prt
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comb	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 linen	det
15	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 linen	amod
16	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 use	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 use	nmod:poss
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
24	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gave	iobj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 joy	amod
27	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 pair	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pair	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pair	amod
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 shoes	case
33	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 shoes	amod
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pair	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 held	nsubj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 held	nsubj
37	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shoes	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hand	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 held	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 forced	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 forced	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 girl	det
44	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 forced	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 forced	aux
46	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	48 forced	advmod
47	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 forced	aux:pass
48	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gave	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 run	mark
50	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 forced	xcomp
51	about	about	ADP	_	52 barefoot	case
52	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 run	obl
53	by	by	ADP	_	56 stepmother	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 stepmother	nmod:poss
55	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 stepmother	amod
56	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 run	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	a maid					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	comb out	to-infinitive	a maid not said here	maid's long hair				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	bring	past	a maid not said here	the finest linen			for maid's use	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent linen=Theme
4	give	past	nothing	much joy	Elsa		as the little pair of embroidered shoes	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent elsa=Recipient joy=Theme
5	embroider	participle						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hold	past	embroidered shoes			Elsa's hand		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
7	force	past · perfect · passive		the girl			hitherto property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
8	run	to-infinitive	the girl not said here				about barefoot; by Elsa's cruel stepmother	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about barefoot=Trajectory
9	use		maid					nom use «act transitive»: poss=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 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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