The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 30

The maiden showed no surprise at receiving such an order, but merely asked for some flour, salt, and water, and also that she might be left alone in a little room adjoining the oven, where the kneading-trough stood.

Who acts: maiden, surprise, kneading trough · What happens: show, receive, ask, leave, adjoin, stand · To what, where: surprise, order, water, maiden, little room, oven

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 (maiden, surprise, kneading trough), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 surprise	det
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 receiving	mark
7	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 surprise	acl
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 order	det:predet
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 order	det
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receiving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
13	merely	merely	ADV	_	14 asked	advmod
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 flour	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 flour	det
17	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 salt	punct
19	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flour	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 water	cc
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
25	also	also	ADV	_	30 left	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 left	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 left	aux:pass
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 showed	conj
31	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 left	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 room	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 room	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 room	amod
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obl
36	adjoining	adjoin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 left	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 oven	det
38	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 adjoining	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stood	punct
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 stood	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 trough	det
42	kneading	kneading	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 trough	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 kneading	punct
44	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stood	nsubj
45	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 oven	acl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	the maiden	no surprise			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent surprise=Recipient
2	receive	gerund	no surprise not said here	such order			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the maiden not said here	water		for some flour and salt; merely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	leave	might · passive		maiden	a little room	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in room=Location
5	adjoin	gerund		the oven			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oven=Co-Theme
6	stand	past	the kneading trough				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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