The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
As may be imagined, the stepmother and her daughter were so filled with envy that they grew quite ill, and had to take to their beds, and nobody would have been sorry it they had never got up again; but that did not happen.
Who acts: daughter, nobody, bed, that · What happens: imagine, fill, grow, have, take, be · To what, where: stepmother
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 (daughter, nobody, bed, that), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 imagined | mark |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagined | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 imagined | aux:pass |
| 4 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 filled | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stepmother | det |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughter | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stepmother | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 filled | advmod |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 envy | case |
| 15 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 grew | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | advcl |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 ill | advmod |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grew | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grew | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 beds | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorry | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sorry | cc |
| 31 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 sorry | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 sorry | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sorry | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 sorry | cop |
| 35 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 had | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 got | nsubj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 got | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 got | aux |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 got | advmod |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 sorry | ccomp |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 got | compound:prt |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 got | advmod |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 happen | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 48 happen | cc |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 happen | nsubj |
| 46 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 happen | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 happen | advmod |
| 48 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 filled | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may · passive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | ||||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the stepmother and stepmother's daughter | with envy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | daughter | ill property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | to daughter's beds result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | would · perfect | nobody | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not get up | past · perfect | bed | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | not happen | past · do-support | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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