The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 44
For some days the mother and her two daughters lived very happily together, for Lizina had given them everything she had brought away except her golden clothing, for that would not come off, in spite of all the efforts of her sister, who was madly jealous of her good fortune.
Who acts: mother, Lizina, that, sister · What happens: live, give, bring away, not come off, be, spite · To what, where: Lizina, spite, efforts
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 (mother, Lizina, that, sister), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 daughters | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 daughters | nummod |
| 9 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mother | conj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 happily | advmod |
| 12 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 given | mark |
| 16 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 given | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lived | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 given | obj |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 given | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 everything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 brought | advmod |
| 25 | except | except | ADP | _ | 28 clothing | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clothing | amod |
| 28 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 come | mark |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 come | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 come | advmod |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 given | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 come | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spite | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 spite | case |
| 38 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 come | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 efforts | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 efforts | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 efforts | det |
| 42 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 spite | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 sister | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 sister | nmod:poss |
| 45 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 efforts | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 jealous | punct |
| 47 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 jealous | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 jealous | cop |
| 49 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 50 jealous | advmod |
| 50 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 sister | amod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 fortune | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 fortune | amod |
| 54 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 jealous | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the mother and donkey's two daughters | day | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | Lizina | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring away | past · perfect | Lizina | except Lizina's golden clothing; away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not come off | would | that | spite of all efforts of Lizina's sister | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Lizina's sister | of Lizina's good fortune; jealous, madly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spite | all efforts of Lizina's sister | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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