The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 92
However, she counselled the woman that when her daughter first wore it-- for that, of course, was what she intended her to do--she had better pretend that she had a toothache, and cover her head with a lace veil.
Who acts: witch, woman · What happens: counsell, wear, be, intend, do, have · To what, where: woman, difference, toothache, head
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 (witch, woman), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 counselled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 counselled | nsubj |
| 4 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counselled | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wore | nsubj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 wore | advmod |
| 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 | 12 wore | nsubj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 wore | advmod |
| 12 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wore | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 that | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 counselled | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | cop |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 counselled | parataxis |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 intended | nsubj |
| 24 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 intended | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 intended | xcomp |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 counselled | conj |
| 31 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 had | advmod |
| 32 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 had | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 pretend | ccomp |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 toothache | det |
| 37 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cover | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cover | cc |
| 40 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 counselled | conj |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cover | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 veil | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 veil | det |
| 45 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 veil | compound |
| 46 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 cover | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsell | past | witch | the woman | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | past | the woman | difference | first property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | intend | past | witch | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | past | witch | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pretend | infinitive | witch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | have | past | witch | a toothache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient | ||||
| 9 | cover | infinitive | witch not said here | witch's head | with a lace veil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with veil=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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