The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 23

After a while he put one or two questions to her, and then led her into his house, and told her that henceforward her only duty should be to tend his sick wife.

Who acts: master, duty · What happens: put, lead, tell, be · To what, where: one questions, girl, house · 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 (master, duty), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 questions	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 one	conj
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 led	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 led	advmod
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 led	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 tend	mark
25	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	_	28 duty	advmod
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 duty	nmod:poss
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 duty	advmod
28	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tend	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tend	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 tend	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tend	mark
32	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
34	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wife	amod
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tend	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	master	one questions	girl		while		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
2	lead	past	master not said here	girl		master's house	then		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into house=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	master not said here		girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is not said to happen	should	girl's duty					tend property	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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