English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 7

When she came to the henwife's she asked for eggs, as she had been told to do; the henwife said to her, “Lift the lid off that pot there and see.”

Who acts: Anne, henwife · What happens: come, ask, tell, do, say, lift · To what, where: henwife, Anne, lid, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, henwife), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 henwife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 henwife	det
6	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 henwife	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asked	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 henwife	det
22	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Lift	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Lift	punct
28	Lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lid	det
30	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Lift	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	33 pot	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 pot	det
33	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Lift	obl
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 Lift	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 Lift	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 Lift	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Anne			the henwife		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to henwife=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Anne				for eggs	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Anne				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Anne not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	the henwife		Anne			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	lift in a quote	infinitive		the lid		that pot; there		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme off pot=Destination
7	see in a quote	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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