The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 20

But the girl would have nothing to say to them, and only bade them be off; then they began to talk to her, but she never answered them, and went on with what she was doing, though her wages were low and food not very plentiful.

Who acts: girl, man, wages, food · What happens: have, say, begin, talk, not answer, go on · To what, where: nothing, man, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man, wages, food), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bade	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bade	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 bade	advmod
14	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bade	obj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 off	cop
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 bade	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 began	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 talk	mark
23	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 talk	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 answered	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 answered	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 answered	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 answered	advmod
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 began	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 answered	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 began	conj
35	on	on	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 went	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 doing	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 doing	aux
40	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 what	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 low	punct
42	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 low	mark
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wages	nmod:poss
44	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 low	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 low	cop
46	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 went	parataxis
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 plentiful	cc
48	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 plentiful	nsubj
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 plentiful	advmod
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 plentiful	advmod
51	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 low	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the girl	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	nothing not said here	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	begin	past	man			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk	to-infinitive	man not said here		girl			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
5	not answer speech: assert	past	girl		man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
6	go on	past	man not said here					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	past · progressive	girl					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	girl's wages				low property	tree rules
9	not be		food					tree rules

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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