The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 13
Ever since her own daughter was born the mother had given her all that she cried for, so she grew up to be as cross and disagreeable as she was ugly.
Who acts: woman · What happens: bear, give, cry, grow up, be · To what, where: own daughter, mother, woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 born | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 born | mark |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | amod |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 given | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mother | det |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 given | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 that | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 given | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 that | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 grew | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 grew | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 cross | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 cross | cop |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 cross | case |
| 26 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grew | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disagreeable | cc |
| 28 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cross | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 ugly | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ugly | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ugly | cop |
| 32 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cross | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | woman's own daughter | ever | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the mother | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow up | past | woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | woman not said here | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | woman | ugly property | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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