The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 4

Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grand-mother doated on her much more.

Who acts: mother, grand mother · What happens: be, doat

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, grand 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
4	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fond	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 doated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 doated	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grand	punct
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doated	nsubj
14	doated	doat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fond	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 doated	obl
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 doated	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl's mother					of girl; excessively, fond property	tree rules
2	doat	participle	girl's grand mother					on girl	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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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