The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 16

After walking for a great many days without being able to find any work, she came to a large farm where they were in want of a shepherdess, and engaged her gladly.

Who acts: Princess, wives · What happens: walk, be, find, come, engage · To what, where: work, large farm, want, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, wives), 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	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walking	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 able	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 able	cop
10	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 able	xcomp
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 work	det
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 walking	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 farm	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 farm	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 farm	amod
21	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 want	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 want	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 want	case
26	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 farm	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 shepherdess	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shepherdess	det
29	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 want	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 engaged	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 engaged	cc
32	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 engaged	obj
34	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	32 engaged	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	Princess not said here			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund	Princess not said here				able property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	any work				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
4	come	past	Princess		a large farm			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location
5	is	past	wives = wife		want		of a shepherdess	tree rules
6	engage	past	Princess not said here	Princess			gladly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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