Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 2

One day the child was very troublesome, and the mother could not quiet it, do what she would.

Who acts: One day, mother · What happens: be, not quiet, do · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, mother), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 troublesome	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 troublesome	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 troublesome	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 troublesome	advmod
7	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quiet	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 quiet	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quiet	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 quiet	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 quiet	advmod
14	quiet	quiet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 troublesome	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 quiet	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 quiet	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 would	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 troublesome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	One day		troublesome property	tree rules
2	not quiet	could	the mother	child		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	do	infinitive	the mother not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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