English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 5

When the year had passed, she called him to her, and said she had good wages for him.

Who acts: year, woman · What happens: pass, call, say, have · To what, where: Jack, her, good wages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, woman), 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	5 passed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 called	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wages	amod
18	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wages	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect	the year				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	woman	Jack	her = she		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to she=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	woman	good wages		for Jack	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=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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