English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 45

The poor girl wandered on and on, till at last she came to a great noble's castle, and she asked to have some work given to her; and they made her the scullion girl of the castle, for she had been used to such work in the fisherman's hut.

Who acts: poor girl, girl, arms · What happens: wander, come, ask, have, give, make · To what, where: castle, work, girl, scullion girl

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, girl, arms), 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	3 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	till	till	ADP	_	11 last	case
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 came	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 castle	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 noble	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 noble	amod
17	noble	noble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 castle	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 noble	case
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 asked	xcomp
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 work	det
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 work	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 girl	det
37	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 girl	compound
38	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 castle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 castle	det
41	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 girl	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 used	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	47 used	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 used	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 used	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 used	aux:pass
47	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 made	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 work	case
49	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 work	amod
50	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 used	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	55 hut	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 fisherman	det
53	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 hut	nmod:poss
54	's	's	PART	_	53 fisherman	case
55	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 work	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the poor girl						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	girl			a great noble's castle	till last		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	girl						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	some work					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
5	give	participle		some work not said here	girl				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
6	make	past	arms = arm	the scullion girl of the castle	girl				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary girl=Product
7	use	past · perfect · passive		girl				to such work in the fisherman's hut	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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