More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 88

He hated her bitterly, because at her birth his favourite daughter died; and when the old nurse brought him the baby, he swore, that it might live or die as it liked, but he would never look on its face as long as it lived.

Who acts: dog, old nurse, nurse · What happens: hate, die, bring, swear, live, like · To what, where: wife, birth, baby, dog

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, old nurse, nurse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	2 hated	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 died	mark
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 birth	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 birth	nmod:poss
9	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birth	conj
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 brought	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nurse	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 nurse	amod
19	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	nsubj
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 baby	det
23	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 swore	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swore	nsubj
26	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 live	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 live	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 live	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 live	aux
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swore	ccomp
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 die	cc
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 live	conj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 liked	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	nsubj
36	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 die	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 look	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 look	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 look	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 look	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 look	advmod
42	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 swore	conj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 face	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 face	nmod:poss
45	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 look	obl
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 long	advmod
47	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 look	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 lived	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 lived	nsubj
50	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 long	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	past	dog	wife			bitterly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	die	past	dog not said here			wife's birth and dog's favourite daughter		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bring	past	the old nurse	the baby	dog			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination baby=Theme
4	swear	past	dog					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	live	might	nurse					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die	infinitive	nurse not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	like	past	nurse					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	not look	would	dog				on nurse's face; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Theme
9	live	past	nurse					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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