The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 44

The father, who was sitting by the fire, thought that, in spite of her muddy clothes, he had never seen his daughter looking so lovely; but the stepmother and the other girl grew wild with envy.

Who acts: father, stepmother · What happens: sit, think, not see, look, grow, spite · To what, where: that, spite, daughter, muddy clothes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, stepmother), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 father	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 father	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spite	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 spite	case
15	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 clothes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 clothes	nmod:poss
18	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clothes	amod
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 spite	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obj
27	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 seen	advcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 lovely	advmod
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 looking	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 grew	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 grew	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stepmother	det
33	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 girl	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 girl	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stepmother	conj
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
39	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grew	xcomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 envy	case
41	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the father			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	think speech: other	past	the father	that	spite of stepmother's muddy clothes		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	not see	past · perfect	father	father's daughter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
4	look	gerund	father not said here			lovely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	grow	past	the stepmother and the other girl			with envy; wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spite			stepmother's muddy clothes			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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