The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 19

All these kindnesses could hardly fail to make a favourable impression on the cats, and it was even better after a while, when she had had time to grow accustomed to their strange ways.

Who acts: kindnesses, impression, Lizina · What happens: fail, not make, be, have, grow, accustom · To what, where: favourable impression

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kindnesses, impression, Lizina), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kindnesses	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 kindnesses	det
3	kindnesses	kindness	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fail	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fail	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 fail	advmod
6	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fail	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 impression	det
10	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 impression	amod
11	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 cats	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cats	det
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 better	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 better	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 better	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 better	cop
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fail	parataxis
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 while	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 while	det
23	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 had	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fail	parataxis
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 grow	mark
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 time	acl
32	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 grow	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 ways	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 ways	nmod:poss
35	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ways	amod
36	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 accustomed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fail	could	all kindnesses			hardly property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not make	to-infinitive	all kindnesses not said here	a favourable impression		on the cats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
3	is	past	impression		while	good property	tree rules
4	have	past · perfect	Lizina		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	grow	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here				tree rules
6	accustom	participle	Lizina not said here			to Cats's strange ways	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: «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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