The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 22
Of course the woman felt quite ill with greed and envy, and she would have certainly taken all the jewels for herself had she not feared the wrath of the neighbours, who loved her stepdaughter as much as they hated her.
Who acts: woman, wrath, jewels · What happens: feel, take, have, not fear, love, hate · To what, where: jewels, wrath, stepdaughter, woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, wrath, jewels), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obl |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 ill | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 greed | case |
| 9 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ill | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 envy | cc |
| 11 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taken | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taken | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 taken | aux |
| 17 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 18 taken | advmod |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 felt | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 jewels | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jewels | det |
| 21 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taken | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 had | case |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | advcl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 feared | nsubj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 feared | advmod |
| 27 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wrath | det |
| 29 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feared | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 neighbours | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 neighbours | det |
| 32 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wrath | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 loved | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 loved | nsubj |
| 35 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wrath | acl:relcl |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 loved | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 loved | obj |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 hated | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hated | nsubj |
| 42 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 much | advcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hated | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | of the woman; ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | would · perfect | woman | all jewels | certainly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not fear | past | woman | the wrath of the neighbours | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrath=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | love | past | the wrath of the neighbours | woman's stepdaughter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hate | past | jewels = jewel | woman | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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