The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 18

But of course she took good care that her own daughter's flax was fine and strong, while the stepsister had only some coarse stuff, which no one would have thought of using.

Who acts: woman, flax, stepsister · What happens: take, be, have, think, use · To what, where: good care, coarse stuff, one

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, flax, stepsister), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
2	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 took	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 of	fixed
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 care	amod
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 fine	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flax	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 daughter	case
13	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fine	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	cop
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 took	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strong	cc
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fine	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stepsister	det
21	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 stuff	advmod
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 stuff	det
25	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stuff	amod
26	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 thought	obj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thought	nsubj:pass
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 thought	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	aux
33	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stuff	acl:relcl
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 using	mark
35	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 thought	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	woman	good care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	is	past	woman's own daughter's flax		fine property	tree rules
3	be		woman's own daughter's flax not said here			tree rules
4	have	past	the stepsister	some coarse stuff		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
5	think speech: other	would · perfect · passive		no one		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute
6	use	gerund				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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