The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 85

At length, however, they began to feel better, for the mother invented a plan by which she could be revenged on the girl who had never done her any harm.

Who acts: daughter, mother, plan, girl · What happens: begin, feel, invent, revenge, not do · To what, where: length, plan, mother

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, mother, plan, girl), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 began	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feel	mark
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 feel	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 invented	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 invented	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 invented	nsubj
15	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plan	det
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 invented	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 revenged	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 revenged	nsubj:pass
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 revenged	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 revenged	aux:pass
23	revenged	revenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 plan	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 girl	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girl	det
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 revenged	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 done	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 done	advmod
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 girl	acl:relcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	obj
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 harm	det
33	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 done	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	daughter		length	however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	daughter not said here			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	invent	past	the mother	a plan			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
4	revenge	could · passive	a plan	mother		on the girl	tree rules
5	not do	past · perfect	the girl	mother			tree rules

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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