More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 84
But the cook was very cruel to her and led her a sad life.
Who acts: cook · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: first
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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 cruel | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cruel | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cruel | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cruel | advmod |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cruel | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cruel | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 led | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cook | first | cruel property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the cook not said here | first | 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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