The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 14

Her stepsister, on the other hand, had spent her childhood in working hard to keep house for her father, who died soon after his second marriage; and she was as much beloved by the neighbours for her goodness and industry as she was for her beauty.

Who acts: father, woman, Andersen · What happens: spend, work, keep, die, be, belov · To what, where: stepsister, house

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 (father, woman, Andersen), 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 stepsister	nmod:poss
2	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spent	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hand	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepsister	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stepsister	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spent	aux
10	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 childhood	nmod:poss
12	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spent	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 working	mark
14	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 spent	advcl
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 working	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 working	advcl
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 died	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 died	nsubj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 father	acl:relcl
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 died	advmod
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 marriage	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 marriage	nmod:poss
28	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 marriage	amod
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 died	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 much	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 much	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 much	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 much	cop
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spent	conj
36	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 much	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 neighbours	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 neighbours	det
39	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 beloved	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 goodness	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 goodness	nmod:poss
42	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beloved	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 industry	cc
44	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 goodness	conj
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 beauty	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 beauty	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 beauty	cop
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 beauty	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 beauty	nmod:poss
50	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beloved	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect · passive		woman's stepsister and the other hand			tree rules
2	work	gerund				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive		house		for woman's father	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	die	past	woman's father		after Andersen's second marriage	soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	past	woman			much property	tree rules
6	belov	participle				by the neighbours; for woman's goodness and industry	tree rules
7	is	past	woman			for woman's beauty	tree rules
8	marry		Andersen				nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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