The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 26

But, by-and-by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother’s temper nor her father’s spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.

Who acts: Master, spoiling, mother, temper · What happens: have, keep, grow up, temper, spoil · To what, where: little daughter, temper

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, spoiling, mother, temper), 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	_	3 by	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	root	root
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 and	punct
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 by	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 -	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 healthy	cc
17	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strong	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 keep	mark
19	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	21 mother	det
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 temper	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 mother	case
23	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoiling	nmod:poss
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 father	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 temper	conj
27	’s	's	PART	_	23 temper	case
28	spoiling	spoiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 keep	aux
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strong	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 keep	obj
32	from	from	SCONJ	_	33 growing	mark
33	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 keep	advcl
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 growing	compound:prt
35	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 growing	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 beautiful	cc
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tall	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Master	a little daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	keep	could	wife's mother's temper nor temper's father's spoiling	temper		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	grow up	gerund	wife's mother's temper nor temper's father's spoiling not said here		tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	temper		wife's mother			nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
5	spoil		wife's mother's temper nor temper's father			nom spoiling «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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