The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 61
She was a very good housewife, and so careful and industrious that there was no creature in the whole country whose hole was so neat and clean as hers, and she took great pride in it.
Who acts: best, creature, good housewife · What happens: be, take · To what, where: good housewife, great pride, hole
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best, creature, good housewife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 housewife | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 housewife | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 housewife | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 housewife | amod |
| 6 | housewife | housewife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 neat | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 careful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 careful | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 careful | advmod |
| 10 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 housewife | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 industrious | cc |
| 12 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 careful | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 industrious | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 creature | det |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creature | nmod |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 hole | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 country | conj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 neat | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 neat | advmod |
| 26 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 clean | cc |
| 28 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 neat | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 hers | case |
| 30 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 clean | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 neat | conj |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pride | amod |
| 36 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 neat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | best = good | a good housewife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no creature in the whole country and the whole country and hole's hole | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a good housewife | neat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a good housewife not said here | as housewife | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | past | best = good | great pride | hole | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pride=Value in it=Location |
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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