More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 5

But she was ill-pleased if folks questioned her too much or too long, and she sore misliked fools.

Who acts: woman, folks · What happens: be, question, mislik · To what, where: woman, fools

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, folks), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 pleased	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleased	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 questioned	mark
8	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 questioned	nsubj
9	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 questioned	obj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 questioned	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 long	cc
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 much	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 misliked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 misliked	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 misliked	nsubj
19	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 misliked	nsubj
20	misliked	mislik	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 questioned	conj
21	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 misliked	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman		pleased property	tree rules
2	question speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	folks	woman		tree rules
3	mislik	past	woman	fools		tree rules

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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