The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 2

He had a housekeeper called Nina, a clever capable woman, and as she did her work carefully and conscientiously, her master had the greatest respect for her.

Who acts: man, master · What happens: have, call, work · To what, where: housekeeper, greatest respect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (man, master), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 housekeeper	det
4	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 housekeeper	acl
6	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
10	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Nina	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 work	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 work	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 did	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 work	aux
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 work	nmod:poss
18	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
19	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	18 work	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 conscientiously	cc
21	conscientiously	conscientiously	ADV	_	19 carefully	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 master	nmod:poss
24	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 work	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 respect	det
27	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 respect	amod
28	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 respect	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a housekeeper		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housekeeper=Patient
2	call	participle		a housekeeper not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	past · do-support	man not said here		carefully property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	woman's master	the greatest respect	for woman	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=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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