The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 76
The farmer's wife was so well satisfied that she gave her higher wages, and treated her like her own daughter.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, give, treat · To what, where: higher wages, wife
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 (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfied | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 satisfied | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 satisfied | advmod |
| 8 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gave | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wages | nmod:poss |
| 13 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 wages | amod |
| 14 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 treated | cc |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 satisfied | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 daughter | amod |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treated | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the farmer's wife | satisfy, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | wife | wife's higher wages | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | treat | past | the farmer's wife not said here | wife | like wife's own daughter | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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