The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 9

At length one day when they were at dinner, the eldest of the three summoned up all her courage and said to her father:

Who acts: daughters, eldest · What happens: be, summon up, say · To what, where: dinner, father, length · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, eldest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod:unmarked
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 dinner	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dinner	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eldest	det
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	20 courage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 courage	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 courage	nsubj
16	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 courage	amod
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 summoned	compound:prt
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 courage	det:predet
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 courage	nmod:poss
20	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eldest	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	daughters = daughter		dinner	tree rules
2	summon up	participle				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the eldest	overlord's father	length one day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient

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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