English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 6

And at the appointed day came down to the castle gate with the keys all ready to hand over to her stepmother.

What happens: appoint, come down, hand over · To what, where: castle gate, stepmother

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	compound
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 keys	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 keys	det
14	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 ready	advmod
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 keys	amod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hand	mark
18	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	xcomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	18 hand	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 stepmother	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stepmother	nmod:poss
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hand	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come down	past		the castle gate	day	with the keys; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
3	hand over	to-infinitive	Margaret's stepmother				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to stepmother=Destination

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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