The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 38

They sent to fetch her, and she arrived covered with rags, but with her hands cleaner than usual, so that she could easily slip on the ring.

Who acts: efforts, shepherdess · What happens: send, fetch, cover, slip · To what, where: shepherdess, ring

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 (efforts, shepherdess), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 covered	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 covered	nsubj:pass
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sent	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 rags	case
12	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cleaner	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cleaner	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cleaner	obl
18	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sent	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 usual	case
20	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cleaner	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 slip	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 slip	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 slip	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 slip	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 slip	aux
26	easily	easily	ADV	_	27 slip	advmod
27	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 ring	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ring	det
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slip	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	efforts = effort				tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	efforts = effort not said here	shepherdess			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	cover	past · passive		shepherdess		with rags	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rag=Theme
4	slip	could	shepherdess		the ring	easily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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