The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 10

And the girl was a good girl, and listened to all her mother’s lessons, and so the years passed away.

Who acts: girl, years · What happens: be, listen, pass away · To what, where: good girl

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, years), 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	_	7 girl	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 listened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listened	cc
10	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	16 lessons	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 mother	det:predet
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lessons	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 mother	case
16	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 listened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 passed	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 passed	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 years	det
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 passed	nsubj
22	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 listened	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 passed	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the girl	a good girl		tree rules
2	listen	past			to girl's mother's lessons	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lesson=Theme
3	pass away	past	the years		away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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