English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 1
A girl once went to the fair to hire herself for servant.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, hire · To what, where: fair, girl
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fair | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hire | mark |
| 9 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 hire | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 servant | case |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hire | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a girl | the fair | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hire | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | girl | for servant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Theme for servant=Beneficiary |
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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